Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Grandin Theatre celebrates Women's History Month
FREE ADMISSION - This film is in French with English subtitles
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.
"A tour de force of cinematic modernism that puts time onscreen as it was never seen before"
- Richard Brody
This film was given the distinction of being voted as Sight & Sound's "greatest film of all time". The film ranked number 1 on the critics' poll, and tied for 4th place in the directors' poll. It is the fourth film to top the critics' poll after Bicycle Thieves, Citizen Kane, and Vertigo, and the first directed by a woman to do so.