Directed by:
Chantal AkermanVOD (3)
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Chantal Akerman’s first narrative feature is a startlingly vulnerable exploration of alienation and the search for connection. In a performance at once daringly exposed and enigmatic, Akerman plays a young woman who, following a lengthy, self-imposed exile, ventures out into the world, where she has two very different experiences of intimacy: first with a truck driver (Niels Arestrup) who picks her up, and then with a female ex-lover (Claire Wauthion). Culminating in an audacious, real-time carnal encounter that brought lesbian sexuality to the screen with a new frankness, Je tu il elle finds Akerman wielding her radical minimalism with a newfound emotional and psychological precision. (Criterion)
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Chantal Akerman
Belgium
Best movies:
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
I, You, He, She (1974)
Porto (2016)
Niels Arestrup
France
Best movies:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
La Rumba (1987)
Sarah's Key (2010)
Claire Wauthion
Belgium
Best movies:
I, You, He, She (1974)
Actors (2000)
Maigret (1991) (series)