Director
Chantal Akerman
Cast
Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël
Edition 1979
128'
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1978
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Drama
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Dialogue:
French
Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present.
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Credits
Directors
Chantal Akerman
Cast
Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël
Scenario
Chantal Akerman
Director of Photography
Jean Penzer
Editors
Francine Sandberg
Producers
Alain Dahan, Maya Faber-Jansen, Emile Poppe
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Dialogue
French
Countries of production
Belgium, France, West Germany
Year
1978
Filmography
Chantal Akerman
Examen d'entrée INSAS (short, 1967), Saute ma ville (short, 1971), L'enfant aimé ou je joue à être une femme mariée (short, 1971), La chambre (short, 1972), Hôtel Monterey (1973), Hanging Out Yonkers (short, 1973), Je tu il elle (1974), Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Le 15/8 (short, 1975), News from Home (1976), Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978), Toute une nuit (1982), Les années 80 (1983), Un jour Pina a demandé... (TV film, 1983), J'ai faim, j'ai froid (short, 1984), New York, New York bis (short, 1984), Seven Women, Seven Sins (segment "Portrait d'une Paresseuse", 1986), Golden Eighties (1986), Letters Home (TV film, 1986), Le marteau (short, 1986), La Paresse (short, 1986), Histoires d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989), Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert (1989), Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher (short, 1989), Nuit et jour (1991), Contre l'oubli (segment "Pour Febe Elisabeth Velásquez, El Salvador", 1991), D'Est (1993), Un divan à New York (1996), Sud (1999), La Captive (2000), De l'autre côté (2002), Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (TV film, 2003), Demain on déménage (2004), Là-bas (2006), O Estado do Mundo (segment "Tombée de nuit sur Shanghai", 2007), Entretien avec ma mère (short, 2007), Women from Antwerp in November (short, 2008), À l'Est avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (TV film, 2009), La folie Almayer (2011), No Home Movie (2015)