No Home Movie
| No Home Movie | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Chantal Akerman |
| Produced by |
Chantal Akerman Patrick Quinet Serge Zeitoun |
| Starring |
Chantal Akerman Natalia Akerman |
| Edited by | Claire Atherton |
Production company |
Liaison Cinématographique Paradise Films |
| Distributed by | Icarus Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country |
France Belgium |
| Language |
French English |
No Home Movie is a 2015 documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman, focusing on conversations between the film-maker and her mother just months before her mother's death. Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival on August 10, 2015, it is Akerman's last film.[1]
The documentary consists of "conversations—whether in person in a neat kitchen, or over Skype from abroad—" between Akerman and her mother Natalia, who was a survivor of Auschwitz.[2] Filming ran several months. Her mother died shortly after filming ended, at the age of 86, in April 2014. Akerman whittled down around forty hours' worth of footage to 115 minutes; she used small handheld cameras and her BlackBerry to film. “I think if I knew I was going to do this, I wouldn’t have dared to do it,” Akerman said of the emotional experience in a phone interview with The New York Times.[2] Akerman died on October 5, 2015 in Paris. Le Monde reported that she committed suicide.[3]
The film premiered in the United States at the New York Film Festival on October 7, 2015, where it was described as "an extremely intimate film but also one of great formal precision and beauty, one of the rare works of art that is both personal and universal, and as much a masterpiece as her 1975 career-defining Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles."[4]
References
- ↑ Debruge, Peter (10 August 2015), "Film Review: No Home Movie", Variety, retrieved 24 November 2015
- 1 2 Rapold, Nicolas (5 August 2015), "Chantal Akerman Takes Emotional Path in Film About 'Maman'", The New York Times, retrieved 24 November 2015
- ↑ Isabelle Regnier (6 October 2015). "La cinéaste Chantal Akerman est morte". Le Monde. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ↑ Main Slate: No Home Movie, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2015, retrieved 24 November 2015
External links
- No Home Movie at the Internet Movie Database
- Profile and trailer at the Toronto International Film Festival
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