May 20, 1977
85 min
Full-HD

News from Home (1977)

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.

Category

Documentary

Country

Belgium France Germany

Companies

ZDF Paradise Films Unité Trois Ina

Chantal Akerman

Narrator (voice)

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