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Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
Film / 1984

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

Directed by Chantal Akerman
DocumentaryTV movie

★ 6.8/10Audience rating

A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker?

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A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker?

Cast

Chantal AkermanSelf Aurore ClémentSelf

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