Chantal Akerman and Samy Szlingerbaum
Le 15/8
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Shot and directed by Chantal Akerman and Samy Szlingerbaum, this quietly revealing variation on the filmmaker’s recurring themes of dislocation and alienation unfolds on one day—August 15, 1973—in a Paris apartment, where Finnish expat Chris Myllykoski opens up to the camera about her anxieties and uncertainties, her aspirations and ennui, and the sense of vulnerability she feels being a woman alone in an unfamiliar country. As Myllykoski’s voice-over narration shifts between the mundane and the searching, Akerman’s observant camera remains attuned to tiny gestures that tell a story of their own.
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Credits
- Director
- Chantal Akerman
- Director
- Samy Szlingerbaum
- Camera
- Chantal Akerman
- Camera
- Samy Szlingerbaum
- Editor
- Chantal Akerman
- Editor
- Samy Szlingerbaum
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