Blow Up My Town (1968)

Original title

Saute ma ville

Directed by

Chantal Akerman

Genre

drama film

Country

Belgium

Runtime

13 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman roams her apartment doing small destructive acts. She eventually leaves the space in a state of ruin.

bleakcerebralslow-burnmelancholicminimalistunsettlingcontemplativequiet

What happens

Chantal Anne Akerman (French: [ʃɑ̃tal akɛʁman]; 6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian filmmaker, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York (2011–2015). Akerman is best known for her films Je Tu Il Elle (1974), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), and News from Home (1976). The second of these was ranked the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound magazine's 2022 "Greatest Films of All Time" critics poll, making her the first woman to top the poll. The other two films also appeared in the same poll. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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