Je Tu Il Elle (1974)

Original title

Je, tu, il, elle

Directed by

Chantal Akerman

Genre

drama film, French New Wave, romance film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

France, Belgium

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

16

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 118 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A depressed woman named Julie leaves her apartment after a breakup and wanders through encounters. She hitches a ride with a truck driver and later visits her ex-lover.

slow-burnintimatecontemplativemelancholicrawminimalistquiet

What happens

Je Tu Il Elle ([ʒə ty il ɛl]; English: "I You He She") is a 1974 drama film produced and directed by Chantal Akerman, co-written by Akerman, Eric de Kuyper and Paul Paquay. Starring Akerman, Niels Arestrup and Claire Wauthion, it follows the depressed lesbian Julie following a breakup with her lover. The film was originally received with mixed reviews, for its slow pace and explicit lesbian sex scene (a first for a mainstream feature film). In the following decades, it gained reappraisal alongside Akerman’s body of work, becoming a cult classic. It has been labelled as a feminist film and an early example of the slow cinema genre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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