Chantal Akerman’s landmark second feature, voted the greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 critics’ poll, follows the meticulous daily routine of its titular lead character as her grip on reality loosens over the course of three days.
As Jeanne’s patient, highly choreographed routines become strained, a remarkable portrait emerges, one that displays the full force and intensity of domestic estrangement.
In its unrelenting recreation of the rhythms of a housewife’s everyday life – unfolding almost in real time – Jeanne Dielman confronts the viewer with images that typically go unseen and experiences that go unremarked.
Monumental and unapologetic, it is a cornerstone of feminist cinema.
"A mesmerising piece of rhythmical filmmaking"Empire
"A tour de force of cinematic modernism"The New Yorker
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