News from Home (1976)

Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker, lives in New York. Filmed images of the City are accompanied by the texts of Chantal Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by...

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Shingwauk

This audiobook came with pictures.

 5 years ago
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-1flb2-

It was fun for awhile, but the fun left and the mundane took over.

 7 years ago
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jmars

Film as high art - fascinating and delicate meditation on both NYC and mother/child dynamics. Also a watch-once sort of thing.

 2 years ago

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