Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

8m
DocumentaryTV Movie
7.2

A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker?

Cast

Chantal Akerman
Self
Aurore Clément
Self

Crew

Chantal Akerman
Director
Patrick Mimouni
Editor
Luc Benhamou
Cinematography
Anne Andreu
Producer
Michel Boujut
Producer
Claude Ventura
Producer

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