No Home Movie

classified PG S

part of Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception

Film

Please note: This was screened in March 2025

Director
Chantal Akerman
Cast
Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman
Details
115 mins, Subtitled, 2015, Belgium, France
Primary language
French, English

Chantal Akerman’s final film is her most forthright and fragile portrait of her relationship with her mother, which acts as a companion piece to Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.

The film is a portrait of her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor, and follows the months leading up to her death. Natalia suffered from chronic anxiety all her life – an affliction that fuelled much of her daughter’s creative output.

Comprising of a series of vignettes that Akerman ‘composed’ by setting down a digital camera in corners of her mother’s Brussels apartment, No Home Movie is a profoundly moving swan song of a film.


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