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No Home Movie

Directed by: Chantal Akerman
Runtime: 1hr 55min Year: 2015
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Directed by: Chantal Akerman
Runtime: 1hr 55min Year: 2015
Country: Belgium, France
Last Screened: Thu 7th Jul 2016

One of cinema's most innovative figures, Chantal Akerman passed away in tragic circumstances in 2015. Her last film, No Home Movie, is her most intimate and personal work: a record of her relationship with her mother over the course of the latter's last year of life.

“Sublime” – Cineuropa”

An intimate self-reflection… a tender, haunting film.” – Los Angeles Times

Through webcam chats, conversations at the kitchen table and shots of lonely landscapes, Akerman constructs a touching, melancholy portrait of her mother, a Holocaust survivor, and also of her own impending grief.

In documenting some of their last conversations, No Home Movie is above all a film about love – specifically, the love shared by two women, unbound by physical distance and mortality.