gregorygalloway:24-year-old Chantal Akerman 3-hour and 21-minute Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce

gregorygalloway:

24-year-old Chantal Akerman 3-hour and 21-minute Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelle premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 14 May 1975. It was released in France in January 1976 and was not shown in the US until 1983.

Akerman shot the film in 5 weeks, using an all-female crew, and Jeanne Dielman has been called “a rigorous structuralist experiment, a stealthily revealing character study, and a feminist statement on alienation within the domestic sphere,” and was a commercial success in Europe.