Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1975

3h 21m

Drama

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Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), the widowed mother of a teenage son, Sylvain (Jan Decorte), ekes out a drab, repetitive existence in her tiny Brussels apartment. Jeanne's days are divided between humdrum domestic chores -- shopping, cooking, housework -- and her job as an occasional prostitute, which keeps her financially afloat. She seems perfectly resigned to her situation until a series of slight interruptions in her routine leads to unexpected and dramatic changes.

Critics Consensus

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles offers a lingering, unvarnished, and ultimately mesmerizing look at one woman's existence.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

02/05/2025

5/5

The silence of Jeanne Dielman is the film’s weather and its atmosphere. It is a silence of terrible loneliness, and a silence in which a storm is gathering.

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Kathleen Sachs

Chicago Reader

12/27/2022

It also demands to be seen on the big screen, where the walls and ceiling of the cinema become the confines of Dielman’s domiciliary rituals...

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Nick Schager

The Daily Beast

12/13/2022

A portrait of female marginalization, subjugation, and suffering that’s as strikingly empathetic and relevant today as it was in 1975.

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Joe Flockhart

Loud and Clear Reviews

Mar 2

4.5/5

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, directed by a 24-year-old Chantal Akerman, is a masterpiece of minutiae, motherhood and misery.

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Clotilde Chinnici

The People's Movies

Aug 7

4/5

What happens when women dare rebel against the oppressive social hierarchy? Akerman seems to direct this question to the audience in the second half of the film.

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Katie Smith-Wong

Flick Feast

01/19/2025

3/5

Jeanne Dielman serves a stylish ode to the life of a modern woman...its impact lingers due to Seyrig’s controlled performance and the intricacy of the minute details that turn the ordinary into something compelling.

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Patrick S

@PatrickStruik Dec 13

Akerman masterpiece.

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Leonardo M

@leosblinds Dec 2

Watch this movie if you need to go to bed early. You'll fall asleep by the first 30 minutes. Guaranteed.

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Matthew M

@RT61846632 Sep 28

There is a reason this is considered the greatest movie ever made. It is a brutally hard watch because of how real it feels. A lot of people don’t seem to have the capacity for empathy during the gruelling long and boring scenes of housework that reflect how women were and are isolated and oppressed, and they’d best stick to some trash with Nick Cage.

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Marcos David C

@Cukierkorn Sep 23

This film could have been made in half the time. Very boring. It's not even on my list of favorite movies with Delphine Syerig

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CalvinHobbes5000 T

@RT78993711 Jul 1

The dumbest movie ever. It's literally 3 1/2 hours of watching a woman perform mundane daily tasks. Don't waste your time.

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Jeff L

@RT69140636 05/29/2025

Absolutely deserving of its present status as the greatest film ever made. Viewers who claim to love cinema, but then wince at what film scholars call “slow cinema” will resist this amazing film’s acclaim. “Slow cinema” is not boring cinema. “Slow cinema” is designed to make the viewer part of the film. As Paul Schrader’s “transcendental cinema” theory demonstrates, films like this are designed to make you an active part of the cinematic process. Unlike “pop cinema” where the film washes over the viewer who sits and watches passively, expecting to be dazzled, slow cinema demands more. The viewer is expected to engage actively with the film. It’s not going to be laid at your feet. You have to fill in the gaps, decide the reasons why a character is doing what she’s doing, find and understand the things that are not being shown or explained. There is very little exposition. You have to determine the why’s and the how’s. Jeanne Dielman Is the perfection of this mode of cinema. If you watch it passively, you won’t appreciate or enjoy it. It will seem boring or pointless. If you watch it actively and engagedly, you will find it stunning, and richly rewarding. And the ending is a whopper!

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Chantal Akerman

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Delphine Seyrig

Jeanne Dielman

Jan Decorte

Sylvain Dielman

Henri Storck

1st Caller

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

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Yves Bical

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Synopsis

Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), the widowed mother of a teenage son, Sylvain (Jan Decorte), ekes out a drab, repetitive existence in her tiny Brussels apartment. Jeanne's days are divided between humdrum domestic chores -- shopping, cooking, housework -- and her job as an occasional prostitute, which keeps her financially afloat. She seems perfectly resigned to her situation until a series of slight interruptions in her routine leads to unexpected and dramatic changes.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Producer: Corinne Jenart, Evelyn Paul, Guy Cavagnac, Alain Dahan, Liliane de Kermadec, Paul Vecchiali
Screenwriter: Chantal Akerman
Production Co: Paradise Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming): May 9, 2017
Runtime: 3h 21m