Chantal Akerman

Tales of Ordinary Sadness: Melancholy in The Cinema of Chantal Akerman

Joseph Earp·

Issue 46: Profiles

Chantal Akerman’s films make their great humanist case simply by existing. Her characters do not wax poetic about their plight, or launch into monologues about the tragedy that defines them. Instead, they live.

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