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Linnie 2022-10-24 20:51:20
Jeanne Dierman, 23 Rue Commercial, Brussels 1080
"In Jeanne Dierman, when we see Delphine Seliger sitting in a chair for a few minutes, we don't think about a distant or recent past, but suddenly wonder if she's well arranged Live your life to the fullest so that you don't let troubles come in. Is it just her troubles? No. No, not just that." -...
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Kiley 2022-09-09 02:26:40
Peeping and Mystery: The Story and the Viewer's Dimension
Watching this movie, all the audience played the role of a voyeur. For example, Nagisa Oshima's "Sensual World" and "Undead of Love" also have a lot of voyeuristic characters, so that the viewer can directly substitute them.
Voyeurism is often associated with taboos, and this is no exception....
Chantal Akerman
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles quotes
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Sylvain Dielman: [Referring to his dead father] If he was ugly, did you want to make love with him?
Jeanne Dielman: Ugly or not, it wasn't all that important. Besides, "making love" as you call it, is merely a detail. And I had you. And he wasn't as ugly as all that.
Sylvain Dielman: Would you want to remarry?
Jeanne Dielman: No. Get used to someone else?
Sylvain Dielman: I mean someone you love.
Jeanne Dielman: Oh, you know...
Sylvain Dielman: Well, if I were a woman, I could never make love with someone I wasn't deeply in love with.
Jeanne Dielman: How could you know? You're not a woman. Lights out?
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Jeanne Dielman: I met your father after the Americans had left. I was living with my aunts, because my parents were dead. One Saturday, I went to the Bois de la Cambre with a girlfriend. I don't remember the weather. She knew him. You know who I mean. I've shown you her picture. So, we began seeing each other. I was working as a billing clerk for horrible pay. Life with my aunts was dull. I didn't feel like getting married, but it seemed to be "the thing to do," as they say. My aunts kept saying "He's nice. He's got money. He'll make you happy." But I still couldn't decide. But I really wanted a life of my own, and a child. Then his business suddenly hit the rocks, so I married him. Things like that happened after the war.
