27. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman, 1975, Belgium) [906 points; 9 votes]
S&S: 51 | TSPDT: 85 | BOXD: 130
MORBS SEZ: "None of Akerman's other films have approached Jeanne Dielman for me, though i like several (La Captive, Golden Eighties, Into the East) … and i will slap down anyone who points to DL's "18-hour movie" quote, bcz what is the Mary Tyler Moore Show besides a 90-hour expansion of Jeanne Dielman?"Jeanne Dielman in the top 40 is a very pleasant surprise.
― jed_, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 3:21 PM
Is there a better film than Jeanne Dielman?
― i know kore-eda (or something), Thursday, January 18, 2018 7:40 PM
It took me three days to get through Jeanne Dielman.
― jmm, Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:40 PM
I don't think Jeanne Dielmann towers above her other films, although it is hard to imagine a film that could so successful bring together so many of the themes of 2nd wave feminism in such a sharpened way.
― plax (ico), Saturday, January 20, 2018 7:00 AM
I'm gonna go watch Jeanne dielman to purge myself of my populist leanings
― 囧 (dyao), Monday, November 16, 2009 8:26 AM
was GONNA ask a guy out to see 'jeanne dielman' but we broke it off before that could happen (this particular guy would've been game, i imagine)
― naches supreme (donna rouge), Sunday, May 22, 2011 11:54 AM
Not only did I not get a date to see Jeanne Dielman, I didn't get to see Jeanne Dielman!
― Casuistry, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:40 PM
Sure its her best film but the overall body of work is just immense (Tout Une Nuit is as good btw, but sure it doesn't capture a time like Jeanne Dielman does). La Captive is the only Proust adaptation worth watching. Golden Eighties is a beautiful send-up-as-love-letter to the musical (iirc given a kind of feminist makeover that works), her films on Pina Bausch and Plath are some of the few films that capture modern dance (and makes Wenders' film on the same subject to be vastly inferior) and the struggles of making anything -- never mind anything good -- come alive. I loved how a more avant-garde framing/video content is pulled into films as varied as the opening of the iron curtain (D'Est) to an exploration of her relationshp with her mother (No Home Movie, the best film of that year). Many more aspects to expore in her work.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, January 19, 2018 8:23 AM
DUDE FUCKIN JEANNE DIELMAN
― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, May 5, 2006 11:47 PM
He'd better watch his back.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, May 5, 2006 11:51 PM
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