Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
| Les Rendez-vous d'Anna | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Chantal Akerman |
| Written by | Chantal Akerman |
| Starring |
Aurore Clément Jean-Pierre Cassel Magali Noël |
| Cinematography | Jean Penzer |
| Edited by | Francine Sandberg |
Release dates |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country |
Belgium France West Germany |
| Language | French |
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (English: "The Meetings of Anna") is a 1978 French-Belgian-West German film by the Belgian film director Chantal Akerman.
Plot
Anne Silver, a Belgian filmmaker, is travelling through West Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her new film. Along the way, she meets with strangers, friends, former lovers, and family members, all the while traversing an isolating and increasingly homogeneous Western Europe. Among the people she meets is her own mother, to whom she talks about her lesbianism.
Cast
- Aurore Clément as Anne Silver
- Jean-Pierre Cassel as Daniel
- Magali Noël as Ida
- Helmut Griem as Heinrich
- Hanns Zischler as Hans
- Lea Massari as Anne's mother
Critical reception
The movie was not initially well received. Many critics found fault with what they perceived as a scaling-back of the stylistic and thematic radicalism to be found in Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975).[1] Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 80% of five critics gave the film a positive review, for an average of 8/10.[2]
References
- ↑ Cronk, Jordan and Calum Marsh "Reframed No. 17: Chantal Akerman's 'Les Rendez-vous d'Anna' (1978)", PopMatters, 11 January 2012. Retrieved on 29 October 2015.
- ↑ "Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (The Meetings of Anna) (1978) - Rotten Tomatoes". rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 29 October 2015.