Director
Chantal Akerman
Cast
Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo, Angelo Abazoglou, Jan Decorte, Frank Aendenboom
Edition 2025
90'
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1982
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Drama
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
French, English
A series of (potential) lovers meet each other only to part ways again, and vice versa. In Toute une nuite (1982) renowned Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) explores the capricious nature of desire during a summer night that imposes its own rhythm onto the restless in Brussels. The film is now restored in 4K by CINEMATEK and Fondation Chantal Akerman.
For some, the night is full of possibility; for others, its darkness lingers long past dawn. In this nocturnal Brussels mosaic from 1982, Chantal Akerman presents a series of characters—played by, among others, Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo, and Jan Decleir—in brief vignettes. They wait, they pace, but above all they long for longing itself. Toute une nuit was Akerman’s first film financed without the requirement of a script in advance, granting her the freedom to write in a highly fragmentary way. Tirelessly, the acclaimed filmmaker captures, encounter by encounter, both passion and its inherent violence on screen. She sets aside words to let bodies speak, at times evoking the choreography of Pina Bausch. Lovers move faithfully to the rhythm of their shifting emotions. The film is shown here in its 4K restoration, undertaken by CINEMATEK and the Fondation Chantal Akerman.
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Credits
Directors
Chantal Akerman
Cast
Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo, Angelo Abazoglou, Jan Decorte, Frank Aendenboom
Scenario
Chantal Akerman
Director of Photography
Caroline Champetier
Editors
Véronique Auricoste, Luc Barnier
Sales agent
Fondation Chantal Akerman
Production studios
Paradise Films
Distributor
Cinea
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Dialogue
French, English
Countries of production
Canada, Belgium, France
Year
1982
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)
Technical Specs
Format
DCP
