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Chantal Akerman

シャンタル・アケルマン　/　しゃんたる・あけるまん

Film director from Belgium

June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015　・　Etterbeek, Belgium

film director
actor
screenwriter

My Take

Chantal Akerman changed how I think about what cinema can do. Jeanne Dielman is rightly cited now as one of the greatest films ever made, but for years it felt like a secret kept among people who knew, three and a half hours of a woman's domestic routine that becomes unbearably tense. This Belgian filmmaker had the nerve to make duration itself the subject. News from Home and Je Tu Il Elle show the same fearless patience. Her death in 2015 hit hard, but her influence on slow cinema and feminist filmmaking only keeps growing, exactly as it should.

Overview

Chantal Anne Akerman (French: [ʃɑ̃tal akɛʁman]; 6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian filmmaker, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York (2011–2015). Akerman is best known for her films Je Tu Il Elle (1974), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), and News from Home (1976).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Chantal Akerman
Name (Japanese): シャンタル・アケルマン
Reading: しゃんたる・あけるまん
Born: June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Gemini / Tiger
Origin: Etterbeek, Belgium
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / actor / screenwriter / film producer / university teacher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

2004 Commander of the Order of Leopold

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3

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