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Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

1984•8m•7.5/10
DocumentaryTV Movie

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7.5/10(3)

A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker?

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Production

Paradise Films, France 2

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman

Self

Aurore Clément

Aurore Clément

Self

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