Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
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Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

7.3 /10 Nov 19, 1984 0h 8m
Documentary TV Movie

A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker?

Director: Chantal Akerman