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Anne Silver, a Belgian filmmaker, is travelling through West Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her new film. Along the way, she meets with strangers, friends, former lovers, and family members, all the while traversing an isolating and increasingly homogeneous Western Europe.
Nov 8, 1978 · The Meetings of Anna: Directed by Chantal Akerman. With Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler. Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave.
Nov 14, 2018 · Such has seemingly been the lot of “Les Rendez-vous d’Anna” (“The Meetings of Anna”), the Belgian director Chantal Akerman’s 1978 follow-up to her monumental “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du...
It is literally just a story of a few meetings that Anna has over the course of several days. She is lonely as she travels around promoting her movies so she sometimes takes strangers to her hotel room, sometimes sees family, but always leaves and goes back to feeling alone.
In one of Akerman’s most penetrating character studies, Anna, an accomplished filmmaker, makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie. Via a succession of eerie, exquisitely shot, brief encounters, we come to see her emotional and physical detachment from the world.
Les rendez-vous d’Anna. Chantal Akerman’s narrative follow-up to her international breakthrough, Jeanne Dielman, is a penetrating portrait of a woman’s soul-deep malaise and a mesmerizing odyssey through a haunted Europe.
The Meetings of Anna On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.
