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News from Home is a 1976 avant-garde documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman. The film consists of long takes of locations in New York City set to Akerman's voice-over as she reads letters that her mother sent her between 1971 and 1973 when Akerman lived in the city.
News from Home è un film documentario del 1976 scritto e diretto da Chantal Akerman. Il film è composto da lunghe riprese di luoghi di New York con la voce fuori campo di Akerman che legge le lettere che sua madre le ha inviato agli inizi degli anni '70.
One of the boldest cinematic visionaries of the past quarter century, the film-school dropout Chantal Akerman took a profoundly personal and aesthetically idiosyncratic approach to the form, using it to investigate geography and identity, space and time, sexuality and religion.
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8 giu 1977 · News from Home: Directed by Chantal Akerman. With Chantal Akerman. Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
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- Chantal Akerman
- 1977-06-08
News from Home. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1976 • United States. Following her time living in New York in the early 1970s, Chantal Akerman returned to the city to create one of her most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditations on dislocation and estrangement.
News From Home 1977 1h 25m Drama List 100% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 67% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Sweeping scenes of New York City contrasted to the letters from the director's mother in...
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Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker, lives in New York. Filmed images of the City are accompanied by the texts of Chantal Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.
