Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975) on Netflix
In Brussels, Jeanne Dielman keeps her flat and her teenage son Sylvain to a fixed daily order. While the boy is at school, she does chores and receives clients in the afternoon.
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Plot summary
Jeanne Dielman has been a widow for six years. She shares a flat in Brussels with Sylvain, her teenage son, and her days keep to a set order: cooking, cleaning, shopping, and laying out his clothes and shoes. She also looks after a neighbor's baby while the mother runs errands. Conversation between her and Sylvain is minimal, so she is effectively alone. While the boy is at school, men come to the flat, and she puts the money they give her into a soup tureen.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
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- Akerman hired an all-female crew, later saying it "didn't work that well" because she had not chosen them and that simply being a woman was enough to join, so "the shooting was awful".
- In 2022 Sight & Sound's critics' poll named it the greatest film of all time; it was the fourth film to top the poll after Bicycle Thieves, Citizen Kane and Vertigo, and the first directed by a woman.
- Filmmakers Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant and Céline Sciamma drew explicit influence from the film, and Van Sant named it an inspiration for his own Gerry (2002) and Elephant (2003).
- The film's exposure and financial success in Europe helped Akerman obtain funding for her 1978 film Les Rendez-vous d'Anna.
- For its 2009 Criterion Collection DVD, the company ran a contest inviting fans to make cooking videos inspired by the film and post them on YouTube.
