No Home Movie (2015)
- sombre
- slow-burn
- bleak
- signature
- intimate
Sombre, slow-burn, measured documentary, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Akerman films her mother Natalia, an elderly woman of Polish origin, in her Brussels apartment. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, sometimes accompanied by Sylvaine, Chantal's sister. Also, and to show how small the world has become, Chantal remains in contact with her mother at other times of the year via Skype from lands as far away from Belgium as Oklahoma or New York.
Our read · No Home Movie (2015) (2015) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive documentary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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