Toute une nuit
Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the realm of romance.
The director at the forefront of the post-war gender debate was already present in only the third year of the Info-Schau with this film. Virtuoso atmospheres between people and things, between spirit and world and time and space distinguish the work of this passionate artist who took her own life in October 2015. Panorama is screening two films in tribute to Chantal Akerman: alongside Toute une nuit, her debut from 1974, the radical Je, tu, il, elle (I, You, He, She).
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Runtime
90 min -
Country
France, Belgium -
Year of Presentation
2016 -
Year of Production
1982 -
Director
Chantal Akerman -
Cast
Frank Aendenboom, Jacques Bauduin, François Beukelaers, Aurore Clément, Ingrid De Vos -
Production Company
Paradise Films -
Berlinale Section
Panorama -
Berlinale Category
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Biography Chantal Akerman
Born in Brussels in 1950 as the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants, she died in Paris in 2015. Many of her films take Jewish life
after the Holocaust as their subject. With her 1975 work JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES she also positioned herself as a filmmaker of the feminist avant-garde. Her filmography of almost 50 titles attracted many contemporary admirers including US director Gus van Sant and her work screened frequently at the Berlinale. Her final film NO HOME MOVIE premiered in New York in 2015.
Filmography Chantal Akerman
1975 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1982 Toute une Nuit | 1984 J;ai faim, j'ai froid | 1989 Histoires d'Amérique | 1993 D'Est | 2004 Demain, on déménage | 2006 La-bas | 2008 Women from Antwerp in November | 2010 On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! | 2011 La folie Almayer | 2015 No Home Movie