Tag: Chantal Akerman

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Down, Out, & Paradise: Chantal Akerman’s Tricky Triptych Je Tu Il Elle

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|Chris Polley| “Making films is very much about frontality, about facing off,” legendary director Chantal Akerman told Mousse Magazine in 2011, less than four years before her death by suicide. Decades removed from her stunning black-and-white debut Je Tu Il Elle in 1974… Continue reading

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Impulsive Desires and Getting Personal

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|Lucille Hanson| The following piece contains spoilers for Je, Tu, Il, Elle and also contains descriptions of sexual content. “It snowed. I figured that, in any case, life had come to a halt, that nothing more would happen, and that I should wait for the snow to stop and then melt. It snowed for a… Continue reading