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1950–2015 Belgium
Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975).
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I think if I knew I was going to do this, I wouldn’t have dared to do it.
Delphine Seyrig complained that there was so much detail she didn’t have to invent anything.
Jeanne has to organize her life, to not have any space, any time, so she won’t be depressed or anxious [...] She didn’t want to have one free hour because she didn’t know how to fill that hour.
A lot of it came unconsciously. [...] When I wrote it, it ran like a river.
She never wanted to speak about Auschwitz. [...] I asked her once to tell me more, and she said, 'No, I will get crazy.' So we could speak around, or after, or before, but the real moment, never. Not directly.