Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
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4.6 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I clip there from Chantel Akramen's 1975 film, Jean-Dielman. |
| 0:24.3 | It is the next movie in our overlooked Auteur's marathon. |
| 0:28.5 | So the three and a half hour deal, it's been considered a masterpiece of feminist filmmaking |
| 0:33.2 | since its debut. |
| 0:35.0 | Consists of these long, static shots, a fixed camera of deal, plain a housewife as she |
| 0:40.6 | goes about her domestic duties. |
| 0:43.0 | Duties which notably include prostitution, but I would say Adam, that isn't given any |
| 0:48.6 | different of a portrayal than say folding the napkins that she also does each day. |
| 0:54.1 | Absolutely. |
| 0:55.1 | The feature debut in 1972 with Hotel Monterey, deal, and followed in 1975, it made its debut |
| 1:01.4 | at the Cannes Film Festival. |
| 1:03.0 | She went on to direct over 40 features, shorts and documentaries before her death in 2015. |
| 1:08.4 | She reportedly struggled with depression and it was called a suicide by friends. |
| 1:13.2 | And European news outlets, she was 65 years old. |
| 1:17.4 | I go back to some of the feedback from our recent poll question about three hour plus movies. |
| 1:23.3 | You heard some variations on the line Jacob Britton had talking about Olivier Asseas' |
| 1:29.9 | Carlos, where he remarked that every time he watches it, he watches it in one sitting |
| 1:35.0 | and it just flies by. |
| 1:36.7 | He said he kind of wishes it was maybe even longer. |
| 1:40.2 | Did you have a similar reaction, Josh, possibly to John Deelman? |
| 1:44.6 | No. |
| 1:45.6 | I mean, if it flew by, then the movie wouldn't be working because the point, I mean, the |
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