Chantal Akerman: Pioneer of feminist film dead – THE WORLD

“My mother is the focus of my work.” That says the director Chantal Akerman in the documentary “I Do not Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman”, the last year has emerged. Her mother Natalia was deported together with their parents to Auschwitz – only Natalia returned

But it was not an easy relationship, and there was more than mother. subsidiary conflicts and Holocaust memories. The best you can see in “Jeanne Dielman” Akerman’s longest (three and a half hours) and meistgefeiertem film (“The first masterpiece of feminist cinema,” wrote the “New York Times” 1975).

The film depicts in long takes three days to everyday an unmarried mother, drawn by the routine of cooking, brushing, children Betreuens – and prostitution. Sleeping with clients for the sake of making money is just part of the same old daily routine as the financial Run.

But on the second day and slight differences begin to creep. She drops a spoon and just flushed cooking the potatoes for dinner too soft. Culmination of crumbling routine is an unexpected orgasm with a client, she then stabs with scissors.

Photo: obs The therapist and the Showgirl: William Hurt, Juliette Binoche in Chantal Akerman’s film “A Couch in New York”

It was a “film of love for my mother” have been explained Akerman, because he recognized the power of all those women who are at home remained and sacrificed themselves for their family. This was in no way meant ironically, but not in the sense of a conservative home-and-hearth ideology. It was a feminist statement, but without the illusion that the situation of women could easily change. Your actress Delphine Seyrig – the star of Resnais’ “Last Year at Marienbad” – was this rigidity to feel themselves because the French Kinoestablishment the radical feminist shut out ever more

Four decades after” Jeanne Dielman “stated Chantal Akerman on a small video camera in her mother’s apartment, how to find the invisible late visibility of their lives to the. Initially not a lot of talk, then the mother mutters something about cooking potatoes, a reference to “Jeanne Dielman”. It was also a reconciliation with a life project, the Chantal Akerman had always rejected for themselves – just in time, because Natalia died shortly after the recording of “No Home Movie”

In the intervening forty years one of the key figures in the feminist cinema. In “Saute ma ville”, a young woman performs everyday domestic work and commits suicide at the end on the gas stove. In “letters from home” it reads in images from New York (where Akerman lived awhile) letters before that the mother has sent her from Brussels. In “I, you, he, she” has the main character (played by Akerman) aimless sex with both sexes.

Also Akerman has back and again the commercial cinema result, such as in the comedy “A Couch in New York” with Juliette Binoche and William Hurt. There were money work, no matters of the heart. This year she has become 65, her last film Mother has been shown at the festival in Locarno, it seemed nothing more to give, that she wanted to say. On Monday evening, Chantal Akerman has committed suicide in Paris.

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