This masterpiece has been named as the best movie of all time and it will be aired tonight

Considered one of the pioneers of feminist cinema, Chantal Akerman especially left her mark on the 7th art with her cult film, which was named the best film of all time by the British magazine Sight and Sound. You can probably guess that we are talking about Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels.

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Released in cinemas in 1976, this 3h18 feature film tells the daily life of a housewife, a petite bourgeois woman, always well dressed, in her forties, who lives alone with her grown son. But very quickly we find out that Jeanne Dielman is engaged in prostitution to make ends meet.

The on-screen embodiment of this stay-at-home wife and mother with a perfectly fit lifestyle, Chantal Ackerman A symbolic choice was made by: Delphine Seirig, a feminist in France (especially known as one of the great defenders of the right to abortion).

Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece

For Sight and Sound magazine, no doubt Zhanna Dielman It’s really the best movie in the world. In 2022, 1,600 film critics and academics from the four corners of the world were chosen to choose the winner who replaced Alfred Hitchcock’s essential Cold Sweat.

As a reminder, this prestigious ranking of the hundred greatest works in the history of cinema takes place every ten years. movie Chantal Ackerman Therefore, there is enough time for this great victory.

And among the many reviews published on AlloCiné, we can read a certain number of flattering words like this: “A masterpiece that leaves a deep mark”, “The object of a cleanly staged film that literally grabs the guts”, “Extraordinary film”, “fascinating”, “Hypnotic Movie”or even “There are rare films that say so much with so many words…”.

A great classic of the 7th art that should not be missed under any circumstances!

Tonight at Arte at 20:55.