Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
The film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, by Chantal Akerman , will be screened on 4 November at 5pm at the Great Hall of the Rectory of ULisboa. This session is part of the "Transformações" Cycle of the Cinema at ULisboa programme .
"Transformações" Cycle: In the course of every being's life, a multitude of transformations take place. In the world of literature, Gregor Samsa was transformed into an insect. In physics, Émilie du Châtelet revealed that energy can neither be created nor obliterated. In cinema, metamorphosis has served as both a narrative theme and a symbolic motif. This film series focuses on the different strands that have passed through us, as individuals, as well as a society, from the 1960s to the modern day. It screens five films that address such diverse transformations as the rural exodus, urban planning, gender (dis)equality, climate changes, migrations as well as dictatorial regimes, in order to emphasise that in the arts, as in life, nothing is lost, but everything is transformed.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
(Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Age Rating: 16+
Film lenght: 3h14m
With presentation by Professor Anália Torres (School of Social and Political Sciences).
Synopsis
Three days in the life of Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), a young but widowed woman who lives with her teenage son. The humdrum routine and the lucidity of small gestures and details of this woman who looks after the house while her son is at school and who occasionally prostitutes herself. The combination of the suffocation of the routine and the fact that she attends to clients at home leads Jeanne to a dramatic end.
Free admission, subject to capacity.
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