An exploration of Jewish American identity in a multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. A series of first-person addresses delivered by a cross-section of Jewish New Yorkers, whose by turns tragic and humourous tales speak to a collective history of trauma, displacement, and resilience.
Direction
Akerman's static frames turn dining tables into confessionals.
Writing
Monologues that collapse personal memory into collective history.
Director
Chantal Akerman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Akerman shot this between her two most famous works, 'Toute une nuit' and 'Nuit et Jour'—it's her hidden middle child about hidden middle children.
The film's structure deliberately echoes Passover Seder: stories of liberation retold through food, with the youngest present to ask why this night is different.
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