Please note: This was screened in Feb 2025
Je tu il elle tells the story of the last three moments of a young girl’s adolescence, painfully approaching adulthood, and who will have to give up something of herself to conform to it.
A young girl (played by Chantal Akerman herself) leaves her town after a difficult love affair and takes refuge in a room in another town. Later she leaves this room, stops a truck on the side of the highway and spends most of the night with the truck driver, a man who could have been a friend.
Before the film will screen Akerman’s debut film, the short Saute ma ville (1968) or ‘Blow up my Town’. Made when the director was just eighteen, this is a blistering first expression of what would become her later major themes: women’s confinement in and rebellion against the domestic sphere.