Directed by:
Chantal AkermanScreenplay:
Chantal AkermanCinematography:
Jean PenzerCast:
Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler, Lea Massari, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Alain Berenboom, Françoise Bonnet, Laurent TaffeinVOD (2)
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Chantal Akerman’s narrative follow-up to her international breakthrough, Jeanne Dielman, is a penetrating portrait of a woman’s soul-deep malaise and a mesmerizing odyssey through a haunted Europe. While on a tour through Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her latest movie, Anna (Aurore Clément), an accomplished filmmaker, passes through a series of eerie, exquisitely shot brief encounters—with men and women, family and strangers—that gradually reveal her emotional and physical detachment from the world. Mirroring the itinerant Akerman’s own restless wanderings, this quasi self-portrait journeys through a succession of liminal spaces—hotel rooms, railway stations, train cars—toward an indelible encounter with the specter of history. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Aurore Clément
France
Best movies:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Helmut Griem
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Cabaret (1972)
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Magali Noël
Turkey
Best movies:
Rififi (1955)
Amarcord (1973)
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Hanns Zischler
Germany
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Europa Europa (1990)
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Lea Massari
Italy
Best movies:
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
The Things of Life (1970)
The Unvanquished (1964)
Jean-Pierre Cassel
France
Best movies:
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Alain Berenboom
Best movies:
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Françoise Bonnet
Best movies:
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Laurent Taffein
Best movies:
The Meetings of Anna (1978)