Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1975

3h 21m

Drama

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Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), the widowed mother of a teenage son, Sylvain (Jan Decorte), ekes out a drab, repetitive existence in her tiny Brussels apartment. Jeanne's days are divided between humdrum domestic chores -- shopping, cooking, housework -- and her job as an occasional prostitute, which keeps her financially afloat. She seems perfectly resigned to her situation until a series of slight interruptions in her routine leads to unexpected and dramatic changes.

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Critics Consensus

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles offers a lingering, unvarnished, and ultimately mesmerizing look at one woman's existence.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

The silence of Jeanne Dielman is the film’s weather and its atmosphere. It is a silence of terrible loneliness, and a silence in which a storm is gathering.

Rated: 5/5

Feb 5, 2025

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Kathleen Sachs

Chicago Reader

It also demands to be seen on the big screen, where the walls and ceiling of the cinema become the confines of Dielman’s domiciliary rituals...

Dec 27, 2022

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Nick Schager

The Daily Beast

A portrait of female marginalization, subjugation, and suffering that’s as strikingly empathetic and relevant today as it was in 1975.

Dec 13, 2022

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Katie Smith-Wong

Flick Feast

Jeanne Dielman serves a stylish ode to the life of a modern woman...its impact lingers due to Seyrig’s controlled performance and the intricacy of the minute details that turn the ordinary into something compelling.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 19, 2025

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Calum Baker

Radio Times

This ably stands as a hypnotic, subversive and profoundly rewarding experience.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 31, 2024

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Calum Cooper

In Their Own League

An extraordinary film that may not necessarily be for everyone – it really does stick to its guns with its long sequences of mundanity – but it nonetheless revels in what cinema can achieve when utilised in service of empathy and experimentation.

Jul 15, 2024

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Jason G

Quite the horror movie. When I saw the four potatoes on the table and knew she'd have to peel every single one of them before the scene ended, I was filled with dread. Thank god she didn't have to change the bedsheets although going to the laundry-mat would have been a relief.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/11/25

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Tom F

I tried to get in the right mindset for this, relaxed but attentive. The 201 minutes of mostly random chores playing out in real time turned out to be highly compelling.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/30/24

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Dana K

Very different and interesting. This movie is definitely not for everyone, but as one YouTuber said "…it is quite the experience to (watch) these really long extended scenes of someone doing something very basic….very little dialogue…but think it's necessary to really get a sense of this woman's life and the mundane routine nature of it, and how that might have lead her to crack"…couldn't have said it better myself. Patience is definitely required, but there was also something satisfying, and sad at the same time, in watching the details of this daily routine…it is honestly not very unlike the routine many of us go thru daily…

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/20/24

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Leprechaun K

Grossly overrated to say the least. It's not a bad movie and I would say most of the movie is somehow satisfying to watch although nothing really happens much at all. Worth a watch, maybe. Best move of all time? Absolutely not.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/13/25

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Lorenz L

I imagine a curious teenage cinephile, just beginning to take an interest in world cinema and confidently seeking out a film such as « Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles », bearing as it does the imprimatur of the Art House cinema's high and venerable authorities as well as insanely wide critical acclaim (need we look farther than Sight and Sound?). I imagine the bewilderment that would follow the viewing; imagine it developing into a scepticism, or even wrath, that would risk engulfing far better films, ones also hailed by the same notables. If this is the art of the movies, then I imagine hearing movie art is bullshit. In the Art House consensus, the danger facing contemporary cinema is its artistic diminution brought about by the market dominance of commercially-ravenous franchise films. The showcasing and enshrining of mediocre movies as masterworks poses an even greater a danger.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/09/24

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Ben W

Hello. Rotten tomatoes machine does not allow me to delete reviews... but consider this a deleted review. I opted for three stars , as a compromise- it's again not my review. Farewell.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/23/23

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Chantal Akerman

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Sylvain Dielman

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Synopsis

Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), the widowed mother of a teenage son, Sylvain (Jan Decorte), ekes out a drab, repetitive existence in her tiny Brussels apartment. Jeanne's days are divided between humdrum domestic chores -- shopping, cooking, housework -- and her job as an occasional prostitute, which keeps her financially afloat. She seems perfectly resigned to her situation until a series of slight interruptions in her routine leads to unexpected and dramatic changes.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Producer: Corinne Jenart, Evelyn Paul
Screenwriter: Chantal Akerman
Production Co: Paradise Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming): May 9, 2017
Runtime: 3h 21m

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