No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, 2015)
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The final film from Chantal Akerman is a portrait of her relationship with her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence in many of her daughter’s films.

No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, 2015)
Language
Taal
Langue
French, Hebrew, Spanish
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
English, Spanish
Only available in
Enkel beschikbaar in
Disponible uniquement en
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Duration
Duur
Durée
115'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78

“This film is above all else about my late mother. About this woman who came to Belgium in 1938, fleeing Poland, the pogroms and the abuses. This woman we only see in her apartment in Brussels. It’s a film about the changing world that my mother does not see.”

Chantal Akerman

“If I have a reputation for being difficult, it’s because I love the everyday and want to present it. In general people go to the movies precisely to escape the everyday.”

Chantal Akerman

Daniel Kasman: Like many of your movies, in No Home Movie the camera is distant and reserved, yet during one of these wonderful Skype talks with your mother you go in close, very close to the computer screen. The images become abstract and blurry and beautiful. Can you talk about coming closer to this image of your mother?

Chantal Akerman: It's an impulse. I cannot say more than that. It's true. It's an impulse, it's my instinct.

And yet, a lot of the shots in the film...it's interesting that you say you didn't know what you were going to make out of the film, because they seem so very constructed. All those shots of the apartment, the repeated shots from the same angles…

Well, you know, I have done that all my life, so it's like a second nature!

But a second nature to do the same thing in your own home?

Probably. But of course in my mother's home it was special.

no home movie
Language
Taal
Langue
French, Hebrew, Spanish
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
English, Spanish
Only available in
Enkel beschikbaar in
Disponible uniquement en
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Duration
Duur
Durée
115'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78
A Film by
Een film van
Un film de
With
Met
Avec
Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman
Script
Scenario
Scénario
Chantal Akerman
Image
Beeld
Image
Chantal Akerman
Sound
Geluid
Son
Chantal Akerman
Producer
Producent
Producteur
Chantal Akerman, Serge Zeïtoun
Editing
Montage
Montage
Claire Atherton
Sound Editing
Klankmontage
Montage Son
Eric Lesachet
Colour Correction
Kleurcorrectie
Etalonnage
Peter Bernaers
Production
Productie
Production
Liaison Cinématographique, Paradise Films
With the Support of
Met de steun van
Avec le soutien de
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles