Ep. 46: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Cinema of Meaning
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Is She Killing the Thing That Is Keeping Her in the House?
I think it might be, I think, potentially more reaction against her own reaction against feeling herself breaking this thing that is trying to break her out of that. There's a great piece of performance where you almost feel like she's daydreaming or she's thinking about something maybe even a little bit pleasant. She immediately slams the door shut. And so we get all these scenes where she's like trying to make the coffee and, you know, she, it's not right. So she keeps it just, it's like all these elements of control coming down to a moment when she goes and polishes the figurines. It's an attempt to like get a handle on this thing that
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