‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman’

This film will be screened extra muros at Cinema RITCS.

As part of the exhibition dedicated to Chantal Akerman, we are showing the film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce à 1080 Bruxelles in Cinema RITCS, which was awarded greatest film of all time by the British Film Institute in 2022.

The evening starts with the short film In Attesa Di Una Tempesta Solare by RITCS-alumna Evi Cats. The film won the prize for Best Belgian Student Short at FilmFest Gent 2023.

In Attesa Di Una Tempesta Solare (2023, 24')
A lost woman wanders through Brussels. She looks for a familiar face, but only encounters streets that no longer exist and strangers she will never get to know. When a mysterious man tells her about a forecasted solar storm, the day takes a different turn.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, 201') 
​​​​​​​​​​​Jeanne Dielman is the story of three days in the life of a Brussels widow as she goes about her monotonous household chores and has sex with precisely one client each afternoon, which is how she supports her teenage son. However, the quotidian lives that women lead become the stuff of drama and even suspense here. The film is a 201-minute leisurely dive into one woman’s inner and outer spaces. Probably the best known example of slow cinema, it was embraced by academics, critics and feminists when it was first released partly because of its radical politics and partly because of its technique, which has proved highly influential.