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17th of March, 2024 | 17.03.2024 | unavailable on medium

A shot from the movie 'Jeanne Dielman' depicting a woman with wavy brown hair, standing in a kitchen at a table. She is making a meatloaf, various ingredients are on the table: milk, minced beef, salt, an empty plate, and an empty bag.

Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.

i've recently watched "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" - a Belgian arthouse moive about the routine life of the titular character - Jeanne Dielman. as Manola Dargis wrote, it's a "domestic horror movie". depicting the day-to-day life of a housewife, a widowed mother, and a sex worker on the side, "Jeanne Dielman" manages to breakdown the stereotypes of a "lively home"; it shows the horror, the dread, and the automatic life of most housewives. it is an absolute masterpiece of cinema, spanning for 201 minutes in total runtime. i'd love to make a deeper analysis on the movie when i'll have time. the coffee, the dinner, the yarn, the button. and the absolute horror the viewer gets when we see Jeanne's routine breaking down - when she forgets to close her urn after putting the money. after she forgets to close the down in her bedroom. the overboiled potatoes, the hasty walk to the shop for a new bag of them. the film is slow, painful. we see not the life of a human, but the life of a robot. the life of a woman under the rule of men in her life.

A shot from the movie was used as the header photograph here. The movie is copyrighted under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, the content is free to copy and redistribute in any medium with attribution. The movie belongs to Chantal Akerman.

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