Chantal Akerman: Mijn moeder lacht
Chantal Akerman
Koppernik, 2024
€23,50
In 2013, filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s mother became ill. She flew back from New York to Brussels to care for her, and in the meantime she wrote: she wrote about her childhood, her mother’s escape from Auschwitz which she did not talk about, the difficulty of loving her friend C., her fear of what she would do if her mother died. Between these moving and unfolding fragments of her life, she placed stills from her films. My Mother Laughs is both a summary of the themes that Akerman dealt with throughout her life and a version of the simplest and most complicated love relationship of all: that between a mother and a daughter. Chantal Akerman (1950–2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and artist who lived alternately in Paris and New York. Her influence on feminist and avant-garde cinema remains unparalleled. In 2022, the British Film Institute voted Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as the best film of all time. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789083347196
