This film was proposed by our member Minchong Li, who writes: 'Avant-garde, subtle, peaceful and touching'.
Following her time living in New York in the early 1970s, Chantal Akerman returned to the city to create one of her most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditations on dislocation and estrangement. Over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan circa 1976, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier. The juxtaposition between the intimacy of these domestic reports and the lonely, bleakly beautiful cityscapes results in a poignant reflection on personal and familial disconnection that doubles as a transfixing time capsule.
*Please note, the screening on Tuesday March 12 is our Free Members' Screening, and the screening on Wednesday March 20 is a general public screening.