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No Home Movie

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Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.

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An intimate document that pays homage to its maker's mother while also serving as a fitting swansong, No Home Movie is essential viewing for fans of Chantal Akerman.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker The dual portrait of mother and daughter, of lives unmoored, by accident or by design, bares the solitude and the mourning implicit in Akerman’s do-it-yourself style. Jul 5, 2023 Full Review J. Hoberman Tablet A 115-minute film hewed from some 40 hours of footage shot over a period of several months, No Home Movie has a sense of Warholian acceptance. Oct 5, 2017 Full Review Tara Brady Irish Times Long shots of barren landscapes and domestic nothingness are punctured, in true Akerman style, with momentary eruptions of pain, poignancy and, most of all, love. Rated: 4/5 Aug 9, 2016 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews An intense home video. Rated: A Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) A must watch movie for anyone inspired by her work and for anyone who always feels a piece of their mother in themselves themselves. Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Scott Nye Battleship Pretension In interviews, Akerman recalls this as an exciting, happy time, but the film gives her a way to express the interiority of being twenty-one and too far away from your roots. Jan 24, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Thought the Tv was stuck, just spent the best part of 5mins listening to wind, and watching a bush blow. I know we're supposed to interpret these films in another way and be patient, but my lifes too short for that, I have a 4yr old, I need too cram as much adult alone time in as i possibly can, wasting it on a bush is a no from me, turn over too other crap. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review David G It's a deep puzzle to me that so many critics rave about this movie. The only way I can understand it is that because they know and admire the filmmaker they're getting a lot out of it that I'm not (or perhaps, just isn't there). I saw this as I always see film festival films: with my cinephile friends who buy blocks of tickets. So when I sat down I didn't know the title, the creator, the language, the genre - nothing whatsoever about it. I sat through the lengthy static opening shot of a dusty desert road somewhere, with a tree being blown violently by the wind. I thought it was a little sloppy that the microphones obviously lacked adequate windscreens and that the camera tripod wasn't heavy enough for the wind. I assumed something would happen. But it never did. The title is obviously 'ironic'. This is very much a home movie. It's shot with a small video camera; on-camera mic; autofocus and exposure; mostly just plonked on a table. So: poor sound, hunting focus and exposure, blown out highlights etc. All extremely distracting. And all avoidable with just a little attention and knowledge - which surely Ms Akerman has or can get. I could go on and on, but suffice to say, if you love Ms Akerman or her work, you'll probably get something from this. If you don't, I urge you to pull out your own home movies or photos of your mother or grandmother and think about their lives. You'll get a lot more out of it than you will from this movie. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/09/16 Full Review Audience Member "??? ?? ???? ????? ????" ????? ?????? ????? ?? ????? ?? ????? ???? ???? ??? ???. ??? ????? ?? ?? ???? ??????? ??????? ?????? ???. ????? ??????????? ????? ?? ?????? ? ????? ????? ?? ?? ???? ?? ????? ????? ???? ?? ?????? ?? ??? ???? ?????. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Akerman's final film is a challenging documentary that is often too esoteric, but also meditative, and subversive. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.
Director
Chantal Akerman
Producer
Chantal Akerman, Patrick Quinet, Serge Zeitoun
Distributor
Icarus Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 1, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 20, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$24.1K
Runtime
1h 55m
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