Chantal Akerman — Director (55)
All the Boys and Girls of Their Time (1994) [TV] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge...
other title: Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... / 同龄的少男少女
Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... is a French anthology tv series. Filmmakers were given the opportunity to portray an episode about the coming of age of young people during one of the past few decades, accompanied by music of that period.
Nightfall on Shanghai (2007) [Movie] Douban
tombée de nuit sur shangaï
other title: 夜幕降临上海 / tombée de nuit sur shangaï
I’d like to film as far away as possible, in Xanghai for instance, and describe, using voice-over, with an extreme precision, everything I know about my street in Paris, in the 20th District, which is quite mestizo and where Muslims and Africans constitute the majority. There’s a school, three bars, and a building recalling the Babel tower. My intention in thus to generate some disorder using the differences and similarities of those worlds.
弗朗茨·舒伯特的最后三首奏鸣曲 (1989) [Movie] Douban
Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert
other title: Franz Schubert's Last Three Sonatas / Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert
Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest of all pianists, plays and reflects on Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. As he points out, Schubert can’t have known that he was soon to die, so they probably do not embody the air of resignation and finality future generations have sentimentally insisted they bear. They were however long neglected, all but forgotten, and only in more recent times have they come to be treasured and performed. The repose and wisdom of the maestro, together with the patient observation of one who is no stranger to the idea of the irrevocably lost, of the erasures of history, and of the value of fragile objects passed carefully from generation to generation, is a joy.
Hôtel des Acacias (1982) [Movie] TMDB
Hôtel des Acacias
other title: 洋槐旅馆
Several young men and women arrive one after the other at Hôtel des Acacias, full of hope, desire and vitality. In the bustle of this hotel, everyone is looking for love. Hôtel des Acacias was an exercise guided in 1982 by Chantal Akerman at Belgium’s INSAS audio-visual college.
8月15日 (1975) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Le 15/8
director: 香特尔·阿克曼 / Samy Szlingerbaum actor: 香特尔·阿克曼 / Chris Myllykoski
other title: Le 15/8 / 8월 15일
Mid-August in Paris (the title is a date: August 15) in a sunny, quiet apartment a young woman talks, thinks, reflects about herself, everyday life and little events in a long, uninterrupted monologue. The camera pictures her and her gestures in long, fixed shots moving around the rooms, the space, the light and shadows of a summer day.
Dis-moi (1980) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dis-moi
other title: 告诉我 / Tell me
Chantal Akerman meets with elderly Jewish women in Paris, all of them survivors of the Shoah, and listens to their family stories. Between interviews, Akerman's mother Natalia speaks of her own family. Made for a French miniseries on grandmothers.
与妈妈对话:娜塔莉亚·阿克曼 (2007) [Movie] Douban
Entretien avec ma mère, Natalia Akerman
director: 香特尔·阿克曼 actor: 娜塔莉亚·阿克曼 / 香特尔·阿克曼
other title: Entretien avec ma mère, Natalia Akerman / Natalia Akerman
"My mother because, in one way or another, I talk about her constantly in my films, and often, I wonder if I have really worked so hard for her, about her, in relation to her, also my mother and her relationship with the movies, a relationship sometimes of recognition, sometimes of negation". – Chantal Akerman
In this 2007 interview, an off-camera Chantal Akerman interviews her mother about her films. The producers of the interview originally intended to edit out Akerman’s questions but ultimately decided to keep them in to preserve the candor of the mother-daughter rapport.
Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2003) [Movie] Douban
Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton
director: 香特尔·阿克曼 actor: Sonia Wieder-Atherton / 伊莫金·库珀
other title: 与索妮亚同行
Since the 1980s, famed cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton has been present in much of Chantal Akerman’s work, whether through her numerous collaborations soundtracks, or as a protagonist (as in Rue Mallet-Stevens, 1986), or in this case, as the subject of an extended documentary portrait. The film begins with a voiceover from Akerman, describing and situating her subject, after which Wieder-Atherton takes over the narrative, sitting before the camera for an extended presentation of her life and art. Wieder-Atherton then performs some short pieces by Claudio Monteverdi, Luciano Berio, Leos Janacek, Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert, either solo or accompanied by a small ensemble. As well as insights into an artist, this film offers a precious cinematic moment of listening.
洋槐旅馆 (1982) [Movie] Douban
Hôtel des Acacias
7.6 (16 ratings) director: 香特尔·阿克曼 / Michèle Blondeel
other title: Hôtel des Acacias
1982年,比利时国家视觉艺术与传播技术高等学院邀请阿克曼担任一个学生工作坊的导师,她与工作坊学生一同编写剧本,并以总导演的身份创作了《洋槐旅馆》,讲述一名女子来到洋槐旅馆,她只给自己一天的时间找到她的爱人。
The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman (1971) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
L'enfant aimé ou je joue à être une femme mariée
director: 香特尔·阿克曼 actor: 香特尔·阿克曼 / Daphné Merzer
other title: 可爱的孩子,或我扮演已婚女人 / L'enfant aimé ou je joue à être une femme mariée
A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes with the mother, does not say a word.