What marked my experience of Jeanne Dielman was the intense awareness I had of my body and the bodies surrounding me in the cinema. The sense of agitation is palpable.
Jeanne is animated by her domestic duties and objects in a ritualised methodical existence. The way in which she attends to peeling potatoes is no different from her sex work with men in her bedroom that intersperses the days. Executed with an almost surgical precision.
Amidst the excruciating repetition I'm…
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
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