Meetings With Anna

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s r Sad, but so powerful in its simplicity. You can do a lot with nothing when true acting takes place. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A very minimalistic film (it doesn't even have a soundtrack!) about lonliness and anhedony. Throughout the movie there is a moody atmosphere (due to the impact of WWII). Despite the slowness of the film, I experienced a great deal of emotions and I empathised with the characters. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member The thing about Akerman's films is that they are very hard to describe without making it sound bad. I mean, really, The Meetings of Anna is essentially two hours of people complaining about their problems. But they are more than that. They are rich, beautiful, and moving. This doesn't hold a candle to Jeanne Dielman but this is good stuff that I'm doing a lot of observing of. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Aurore Clement stars as a Belgian film director who travels to Germany to appear at a showing of her film. She picks up and sleeps with a German man, talks to another man on the train back to Paris, meets her mother at a stop in Brussels, and is picked up at the train by her boyfriend. All of her interactions are marked by her alienation and extreme disconnection from her environment. The one exception is with her mother, where she comes back to life. Clement turns in an amazing and strange performance marked by her rather blank stare and extremely formal ways of doing even the smallest actions. Akerman brings to this character study the formal techniques she developed in her earlier experimental films ... extremely long takes, repetition and a focus on rendering banal environments in an almost poetic fashion. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Dizem que os franceses carregam a liberdade em seus corações. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member At times it's very beautiful especially when Akerman employs her rigorous formal compositions. At other times, it's slow and obvious with its commentary on alienation. Still, I do think it's an interesting film. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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