Fancy Movie Time #4: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
On this month's Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., the Fancy Lads experience the slow-burn and exquisite delights of watching a Belgian woman do chores in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Is this newly crowned top of the Sight and Sound Top 100 List a Fancy Feast? Or does its painstaking dedication to the brutality of homemaking make it a Failure to Fancy? Okay, normally we like to play coy about this but holy shit we loved this movie. Go watch it! DO IT NOW!!!
Comments (5)
watched this today and one character choice i love is how the actress makes the choice to have the character be really bad at reading aloud. it really does add something, but also like. girl slow down!!!
I'm going through the backlog of these now. One thing the convo about Jeanne reminded me of is Martha Rosler's video art installations in the 1970s about cooking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUDzSDA8q0). There's a similar contrast of normalcy and bizarre that I think would be up your alleys.
The title of this film sounds like a torrent filename.
I'd like to hear you discuss The Best Years of Our Lives, a movie that addresses the transition from WW2 back to civilian life, directed by William Wyler who lost part of his hearing shooting films in combat zones.
I would recommend the holy mountain it’s an incredible psychomagical dreamscape that also features a man yelling “conquer the holy mountain horizontally!”