In honor of Holocaust Rememberance Day, Cornell Cinema is screening, No Home Movie (2015), by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Shuttling among fiction, adaptation, documentary, and essay film, Akerman has created one of the most original, daring, and influential oeuvres in film history. Her final film, No Home Movie, is a sober, profoundly moving portrait of her mother in the months leading up to her death, when she was mostly confined to her Brussels apartment. A Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz, Akerman's mother suffered from chronic anxiety all her life, an affliction that fueled much of her daughter's creative output and helped shape Akerman's thematic preoccupations with gender, sex, cultural identity, existential ennui, solitude, and mania.
Admission: $8.50 general/$6.50 seniors/$6 CU graduate students/$5.50 students
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