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      Meetings With Anna

      1978 2h 7m Drama List
      71% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 85% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Anna meets many people on her trip to Germany to show her latest film, and they all make personal revelations to her. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jan 23 Buy Now

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      Janet Maslin New York Times Miss Akerman's film has a crisp, simple elegance at times, as the camera studies a hotel room or a train station with a patience like Anna's own. May 9, 2005 Full Review Scott Nye Battleship Pretension ...Les rendez-vous is a major step forward for Akerman in developing her capacity for choreographing the elements of cinema, most especially a larger cast, and finding new ways of expressing her central themes in choreographing them in their environments. Jan 24, 2024 Full Review Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) One thing is to deconstruct old narrative methods and another is to simply substitute them with new conventions where form and story end up being ineffective. [Full Review in Spanish] Aug 14, 2019 Full Review Dan Callahan House Next Door A not particularly believable, conventional narrative about a film director (Aurore Clment) who feels alienated (surprise!) and listens to a lot of disparate people talk, talk, talk. Feb 23, 2011 Full Review Christopher Long Movie Metropolis The film is a travelogue almost devoid of any sight-seeing features. Rated: 7/10 Jan 22, 2010 Full Review Nick Davis Nick's Flick Picks The modern age is not the death of sex or friendship, and perhaps art and love will also survive, but they need to be recognized in new ways, hustled up from often unpromising elements. Rated: A- Nov 13, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 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 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 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 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Dizem que os franceses carregam a liberdade em seus corações. 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 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis Anna meets many people on her trip to Germany to show her latest film, and they all make personal revelations to her.
      Director
      Chantal Akerman
      Screenwriter
      Chantal Akerman
      Production Co
      Unite Trois, Hélène Films, Paradise Films, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française de Belgique, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jan 19, 2010
      Runtime
      2h 7m
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