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Dir: Chantal Akerman
Cast: Chantal Akerman
89mins   1976   Belgium | France | West Germany   Certificate: U   French   

Presented by Cinelogue
Introduced by Isabel Stevens, Managing Editor of Sight & Sound and curator of BFI Southbank’s Akerman retrospective

This beautifully captured time capsule of 1970s New York City is Akerman's most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditation on dislocation and estrangement.

Over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier. A tender meditation on urban alienation and personal disconnection.

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Showtimes


Thu 19 June

18:00