Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

Release Date: 1984-11-19

Runtime: 8

Languages: Français

Rating: 6

Votes: 1

Genres: Documentary | TV Movie

Director: Chantal Akerman

Description: A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. Wha...A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker?Read More

Production Companies:

Paradise Films

France 2