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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)

NR 202 minutes FR Drama

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.

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Delphine Seyrig

Jeanne Dielman

Jan Decorte

Sylvain Dielman

Henri Storck

1st Caller

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

2nd Caller

Yves Bical

3rd Caller

Chantal Akerman

Neighbor (voice) (uncredited)

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Jacky Dufour

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Babette Mangolte

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Patricia Canino

Editor

Françoise Van Thienen

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Éliane Marcus

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Bénie Deswarte

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Alain Marchall

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Philippe Graff

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There's a lot of much deeper things to say about this film and what it does and what it means, about the crushing routine of everyday life, about the nature of the worlds we live in, the stories we tell, but for now I just wanna say this movie is incredibly hypnotic and genuinely engaging and passes by far quicker than any movie this long and with this little happening rightly should. Good stuff tbh.

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The most negative review

Yes, it's 3 hours, but we have to forgive that it's from an era before MTV and the resulting cultural ADD. If I didn't know better, I'd think this was the inspiration for Aronofsky's Academy Award-winning film 'Black Swan (2010). Well, actually, I don't know better. Maybe it was.
The premise is similar. Here we become the spectator of one woman's descent into madness. It's kind of riveting in a ghoulish sort or way.

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Production companies: Paradise Films, Unité Trois, Ministère de la Culture Française de Belgique, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la FWB

Production countries: Belgium, France

Budget: $120,000

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