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Saute ma ville

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles • 13m

Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1968 • Belgium

Made when the director was just eighteen, Chantal Akerman’s debut film is a blistering first expression of what would become one of her major themes: women’s confinement in and rebellion against the domestic sphere. Akerman plays a young woman who, alone in her kitchen, enacts a savaging of traditional domestic rituals that leads to a literally explosive climax.

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