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Shot and directed by Chantal Akerman and Samy Szlingerbaum, this quietly revealing variation on the filmmaker’s recurring themes of dislocation and alienation unfolds on one day—August 15, 1973—in a Paris apartment, where Finnish expat Chris Myllykoski opens up to the camera about her anxieties and uncertainties, her aspirations and ennui, and the sense of vulnerability she feels being a woman alone in an unfamiliar country. As Myllykoski’s voice-over narration shifts between the mundane and the searching, Akerman’s observant camera remains attuned to tiny gestures that tell a story of their own. (Criterion)
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Chantal Akerman
Belgium
Best movies:
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
I, You, He, She (1974)
Porto (2016)
Samy Szlingerbaum
Best movies:
A Whole Night (1982)