Je tu il elle
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Chantal Akerman’s first narrative feature is a startlingly vulnerable exploration of alienation and the search for connection. In a performance at once daringly exposed and enigmatic, Akerman plays a young woman who, following a lengthy, self-imposed exile, ventures out into the world, where she has two very different experiences of intimacy: first with a truck driver (Niels Arestrup) who picks her up, and then with a female ex-lover (Claire Wauthion). Culminating in an audacious, real-time carnal encounter that brought lesbian sexuality to the screen with a new frankness, Je tu il elle finds Akerman wielding her radical minimalism with a newfound emotional and psychological precision.
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Cast
- Chantal Akerman
- Julie
- Niels Arestrup
- Truck driver
- Claire Wauthion
- Girlfriend
Credits
- Director
- Chantal Akerman
- Written by
- Chantal Akerman
- Cinematography
- Bénédicte Delesalle
- Editor
- Luc Freché
- Sound
- Alain Pierre
- Sound
- Samy Szlingerbaum
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