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- 100The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasChantal Akerman’s radical 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles turns the term “realism” on its face, exploring the contours of a woman’s life through the mundane routines that never make it into movies.
- 100ColliderChase HutchinsonColliderChase HutchinsonNot only is it a stunning piece of filmmaking that is as rich in detail as it is patient in its exploration, but it also makes the most of absolutely every single element of its slice-of-life portrait.
- 100LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenLarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenUltimately, Jeanne Dielman registers not as a condemnation of domesticity, but a document of the exhaustion that comes from caring for others and never receiving care in return.
- 100The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyJeanne Dielman... has been described as minimalist, though I don't see how any film this long and so packed with information could be equated with minimalism as defined in painting. The manner of the film is spare, but the terrible, obsessive monotony of the life it observes is ultimately as melodramatic as, say, Roman Polanski's ''Repulsion.''
- 100Slant MagazineEric HendersonSlant MagazineEric HendersonChantal Akerman’s 1975 experiment in film form, Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, is an astonishing work of subtextual feminism which has to count as one of the seminal films of the 1970s.
- 100Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezJeanne Dielman is not for all tastes. But for those with the necessary patience, it is a game-changing masterpiece. [11 Sep 2009, p.G18]
- 90The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyAkerman’s chillingly sardonic feminist fable—which also bears the weight of unspoken wartime trauma—is built on a sublime paradox, the elusive identity of someone who, as the title suggests, is so easily identified.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonAvant-garde triumph revolving around the seemingly mundane life of a widow in Brussels.
- It's not a brisk 201 minutes but it is engrossing and rewarding, a painstakingly realistic account (oozing verisimiltude out of every frame, and there are a lot of frames) of three days in the life of the female protagonist of the title, portrayed by Delphine Seyrig.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliBeing fascinating and unique, two qualities unquestionably in evidence here, don’t automatically deserve praise and, because of the film’s high quotient of tediousness, I find it impossible to recommend to any but the most devoted of experimental art film lovers. It works very well, however, as a cure for insomnia.