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Chantal Akerman’s famous first.

Je, Tu, Il, Elle (I, You, He, She) is conceived, shot, directed and acted by Chantal Akerman (1950-2015).

The slow pace of Chantal Akerman’s (1950) Jeanne Dielman (1975) echoes Neorealism. The 1970s new realism however, is not the realism of the worker or the fisherman, but that of the woman. Despite its requiring contemplation and concentration from its audience, the 200 minutes long film – subsidized by the Walloon ministry of culture – became an international success in art-house circles and feminist

Brussels – New York. When Chantal Akerman (1950-1-2015) left for New York as a young woman, her mother kept writing letters.