Due to the length of this film, the screenings will begin at 10:30 am.

Currently ranked number one on the BFI Sight and Sound’s list of the greatest films of all time, Chantal Akerman transforms cinema, itself so often an instrument of women’s oppression, into a liberating force. A singular work in film history, the film meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades

Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), the widowed mother of a teenage son, Sylvain (Jan Decorte), ekes out a drab, repetitive existence in her tiny Brussels apartment. Jeanne's days are divided between humdrum domestic chores -- shopping, cooking, housework -- and her job as an occasional prostitute, which keeps her financially afloat. She seems perfectly resigned to her situation until a series of slight interruptions in her routine leads to unexpected and dramatic changes.

Reviews

"At once spectacle and antispectacle, Jeanne Dielman not only criticizes the dominant mode of representing women but challenges the dominant mode of representation itself." – Village Voice

"It's astonishing Chantal Akerman was only 25 when she made this ... Movies are all too often reserved for stories of grand sacrifices - typically, male ones; Jeanne Dielman grants epic status to the everyday sacrifices of women." – Filmspotting