Screen/Society--Tribute to Chantal Akerman (1950-2015): "No Home Movie"

Tribute to Chantal Akerman (1950-2015): "No Home Movie" (Chantal Akerman, 2016, 115 min, Belgium/France, in French w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) / At the center of Chantal Akerman's enormous body of work is her mother, a Holocaust survivor who married and raised a family in Brussels. In recent years, the filmmaker has explicitly depicted, in videos, books, and installation works, her mother's life and their own intense connection to each other. "No Home Movie" is a portrait by Akerman, the daughter, of Akerman, the mother, in the last years of her life. It is an extremely intimate film but also one of great formal precision and beauty, one of the rare works of art that is both personal and universal, and as much a masterpiece as her 1975 career-defining "Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles". / -- "Though the film is full of tenderness, violence and rupture are never far away as Akerman seeks to extract her mother's harrowing story before that knowledge is forever irretrievable. In so doing, she creates an intense, demanding viewing experience, revealing in the most naked of ways the core of her work and her wounds: her focus on confinement, repetition, confrontation, dizzying instability, the longing to be elsewhere" - Tiff.net / -- "Akerman creates feelings of both intimacy and aloof documentation; the digital images often feel overly vivid, coldly austere, surveilling." -- The Skinny / Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOm61DRBL1s