Chantal Akerman’s ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles,’ a 1975 drama, is now atop Sight and Sound’s ten-year poll of critics asked to name the best film of all-time. This marks the first time a woman director has topped the list
’s ten-year poll of critics asked to name the best film of all-time. The 2022 win by Akerman marks the first time a woman director has topped the list, which previously has never even had a woman in its top ten.Jeanne Dielman
is a triumph for feminist and avant garde perspectives in filmmaking, and can perhaps be owed to the poll expanding its critics’ pool in 2012, marking the first time thatRelated Story The film is not an easy sit, coming in at three-and-a-half hours. The film charts the breakdown of a bourgeois Belgian housewife, mother, and part-time prostitute over the course of three days. dominated the Sight and Sound list for 40 years, from 1962 to 2002, bracketed at one end, in 2012, by Alfred Hitchcock’sAkerman died at age 65 on October 5, 2015, reportedly by suicide.
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