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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), the widowed mother of a teenage son, Sylvain (Jan Decorte), ekes out a drab, repetitive existence in her tiny Brussels apartment. Jeanne's days are divided between humdrum domestic chores -- shopping, cooking, housework -- and her job as an occasional prostitute, which keeps her financially afloat. She seems perfectly resigned to her situation until a series of slight interruptions in her routine leads to unexpected and dramatic changes.
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Critics Consensus

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles offers a lingering, unvarnished, and ultimately mesmerizing look at one woman's existence.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian 02/05/2025
5/5
The silence of Jeanne Dielman is the film’s weather and its atmosphere. It is a silence of terrible loneliness, and a silence in which a storm is gathering. Go to Full Review Kathleen Sachs Chicago Reader 12/27/2022
It also demands to be seen on the big screen, where the walls and ceiling of the cinema become the confines of Dielman’s domiciliary rituals... Go to Full Review Nick Schager The Daily Beast 12/13/2022
A portrait of female marginalization, subjugation, and suffering that’s as strikingly empathetic and relevant today as it was in 1975. Go to Full Review Clotilde Chinnici The People's Movies Aug 7
4/5
What happens when women dare rebel against the oppressive social hierarchy? Akerman seems to direct this question to the audience in the second half of the film. Go to Full Review Katie Smith-Wong Flick Feast 01/19/2025
3/5
Jeanne Dielman serves a stylish ode to the life of a modern woman...its impact lingers due to Seyrig’s controlled performance and the intricacy of the minute details that turn the ordinary into something compelling. Go to Full Review Calum Baker Radio Times 07/31/2024
5/5
This ably stands as a hypnotic, subversive and profoundly rewarding experience. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Patrick S @PatrickStruik Dec 13 Akerman masterpiece. See more Leonardo M @leosblinds Dec 2 Watch this movie if you need to go to bed early. You'll fall asleep by the first 30 minutes. Guaranteed. See more Matthew M Sep 28 There is a reason this is considered the greatest movie ever made. It is a brutally hard watch because of how real it feels. A lot of people don’t seem to have the capacity for empathy during the gruelling long and boring scenes of housework that reflect how women were and are isolated and oppressed, and they’d best stick to some trash with Nick Cage. See more Marcos David C @Cukierkorn Sep 23 This film could have been made in half the time. Very boring. It's not even on my list of favorite movies with Delphine Syerig See more CalvinHobbes5000 Jul 1 The dumbest movie ever. It's literally 3 1/2 hours of watching a woman perform mundane daily tasks. Don't waste your time. See more Jeff L May 29 Absolutely deserving of its present status as the greatest film ever made. Viewers who claim to love cinema, but then wince at what film scholars call “slow cinema” will resist this amazing film’s acclaim. “Slow cinema” is not boring cinema. “Slow cinema” is designed to make the viewer part of the film. As Paul Schrader’s “transcendental cinema” theory demonstrates, films like this are designed to make you an active part of the cinematic process. Unlike “pop cinema” where the film washes over the viewer who sits and watches passively, expecting to be dazzled, slow cinema demands more. The viewer is expected to engage actively with the film. It’s not going to be laid at your feet. You have to fill in the gaps, decide the reasons why a character is doing what she’s doing, find and understand the things that are not being shown or explained. There is very little exposition. You have to determine the why’s and the how’s. Jeanne Dielman Is the perfection of this mode of cinema. If you watch it passively, you won’t appreciate or enjoy it. It will seem boring or pointless. If you watch it actively and engagedly, you will find it stunning, and richly rewarding. And the ending is a whopper! See more Read all reviews
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Chantal Akerman

Director

Delphine Seyrig

Jeanne Dielman

Jan Decorte

Sylvain Dielman

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

2nd Caller

Yves Bical

3rd Caller

Henri Storck

1st Caller

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Synopsis Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), the widowed mother of a teenage son, Sylvain (Jan Decorte), ekes out a drab, repetitive existence in her tiny Brussels apartment. Jeanne's days are divided between humdrum domestic chores -- shopping, cooking, housework -- and her job as an occasional prostitute, which keeps her financially afloat. She seems perfectly resigned to her situation until a series of slight interruptions in her routine leads to unexpected and dramatic changes.
Director
Chantal Akerman
Producer
Corinne Jenart, Evelyn Paul
Screenwriter
Chantal Akerman
Production Co
Paradise Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming)
May 9, 2017
Runtime
3h 21m
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