

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
Direction
Akerman's static NYC tableaux are devastatingly patient.
Sound
Her flat voice reading mother's guilt-trips is the real score.

Director
Chantal Akerman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Akerman shot this during her early NYC years, living off $8 a day. Her mother never visited.
This prefigured 'texts from mom' cinema by decades. The guilt is universal, the form is revolutionary.
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