News from Home (1976)
- Directed by
- Chantal Akerman
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Germany, France, Belgium
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 90 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
The film shows long static shots of New York City streets, subways, and neighborhoods. Over these images, director Chantal Akerman reads letters her mother wrote her while she was living there in the early 1970s.
intimatelonelycontemplativequieturbanmelancholicpersonalslow-paced
What happens
News from Home is a 1976 avant-garde documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman. The film consists of long takes of locations in New York City set to Akerman's voice-over as she reads letters that her mother sent her between 1971 and 1973 when Akerman lived in the city. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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