Filmboxd Logo

Filmboxd

1977

News from Home

Directed by Chantal Akerman

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.

Duration

1h 29m

Released

May 20, 1977

You´re not logged yet? Do it here

7.0

Rating79

Views0

Likes0

Lists16

Cast1

  • Chantal Akerman

Recommended Films

  • Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
  • Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
  • Good Game
  • 100 Years
  • Profilers: Gaze Into the Abyss
  • My Own Breathing
  • Amazona
  • You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
  • Election Day
  • The Yes Men
  • Adriana's Pact
  • Chavela
  • Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
  • The 11th Hour
  • The Story of the Weeping Camel
  • Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
  • Full Metal Village
  • The Occupation of the American Mind
  • Served Like a Girl
  • Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web