Les rendez-vous d’Anna
Chantal Akerman, 1978, 127 min

With introductions by Ruth Novaczek & Therese Henningsen

“Chantal Akerman’s narrative follow-up to her international breakthrough, Jeanne Dielman, is a penetrating portrait of a woman’s soul-deep malaise and a mesmerizing odyssey through a haunted Europe. While on a tour through Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her latest movie, Anna (Aurore Clément), an accomplished filmmaker, passes through a series of eerie, exquisitely shot brief encounters – with men and women, family and strangers – that gradually reveal her emotional and physical detachment from the world. Mirroring the itinerant Akerman’s own restless wanderings, this quasi-self-portrait journeys through a succession of liminal spaces – hotel rooms, railway stations, train cars – toward an indelible encounter with the spectre of history.” – Janus Films

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Screening as part of our Close-Up on Chantal Akerman programme