The Films of Chantal Akerman, Ranked

“That film (Jeanne Dielman) was about gesture. And choreography, in order to give you the feeling that it’s real time. It’s not. It’s totally choreographed. It’s a very specific film in those terms.”

News from Home, 1977
“You know, when I went to New York, I didn’t tell anyone I was going, I just wrote to my mother when I was there. It wasn’t the first time I’d left home – I’d left before to live in Paris. But it was the first time I hadn’t said anything and that I was going so far. So, I know my mother quite well and I wrote to her a lot so she...