Je, tu, il, elle
Directed by:
Chantal AkermanVOD (3)
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Chantal Akerman’s first narrative feature is a startlingly vulnerable exploration of alienation and the search for connection. In a performance at once daringly exposed and enigmatic, Akerman plays a young woman who, following a lengthy, self-imposed exile, ventures out into the world, where she has two very different experiences of intimacy: first with a truck driver (Niels Arestrup) who picks her up, and then with a female ex-lover (Claire Wauthion). Culminating in an audacious, real-time carnal encounter that brought lesbian sexuality to the screen with a new frankness, Je tu il elle finds Akerman wielding her radical minimalism with a newfound emotional and psychological precision. (Criterion)
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Chantal Akerman will definitely not be my favorite filmmaker because her films are just formally not my cup of tea. I like films that have a story. There was none here. The black and white cinematography of the film is beautiful, but what unfolds in front of it basically didn't interest me throughout the whole time. Was it that I didn't want to think about what was going on? Or is it that it was empty?
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