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.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 5, 2025

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2025

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 31, 2024

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

"Jeanne Dielman" is a masterpiece. It’s over three hours long and contains scant amounts of dialogue and minimal action. Your mind will drift a lot, but where it drifts is half the experience.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 7, 2024

It is a bold, striking, and shocking work, and should anger at least a few.

| Jan 24, 2024

The film pays homage to her mother, a Holocaust survivor, a fact that explains the lack of communication with her son, the long silences, and the obsession with the routine, avoiding confronting demons from the past. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 10, 2023

Without a doubt, an important achievement in cinema storytelling, that will reward patient audiences and most likely drive away the rest. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2023

"It is a towering achievement in cinema. It's also one of the last films I’d ever recommend to casual moviegoers, which is why the placement of 'Jeanne Dielman' at the top of the BFI list strikes me as such a problematic provocation.

| Jan 28, 2023

It should be seen by anyone who thinks they truly love the medium, for the way it pushes the boundaries of cinema in formal terms while delivering a considerable emotional punch… though yes, you will have to wait for it.

| Jan 9, 2023

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

Pathos and commentary are lost in Jeanne Dielman’s egregious running time, which has absolutely no business being 202 minutes long.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2022

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

| Dec 13, 2022

Here the character work is the plot, and Akerman is showing us how we can intuit Jeanne’s state of mind through her actions.

| Dec 12, 2022

All familiar things, the house, the home, become instances of the 'unheimlich' (bloodstained hands, darkness, silence), the kind of horror that is attached to things we have known for a long time, that we have under control.

| Dec 7, 2022

Without a doubt, this is a film by a brilliantly talented artist with a rigorous intellect, a formal sophistication, and an emotional empathy astounding for someone her age.

| Dec 7, 2022

[Akerman, Seyrig, and Mangolte] are seemingly in perfect accord as to what they want to say about a tradition-bound treadmill whose back-forth, up-down existence is the phenomenological stuff of this movie, what other movies leave out.

| Dec 7, 2022

At once spectacle and antispectacle, Jeanne Dielman not only criticizes the dominant mode of representing women but challenges the dominant mode of representation itself.

| Dec 7, 2022

There's subversive black humor and violence lurking in Jeanne Dielman's implacable calm.

| Dec 7, 2022

There is something curiously compelling about Ackerman's chillingly documented portrait of an obsessively neat woman who slowly but inevitably cracks under the strain of maintaining her image as a perfect mother and housekeeper.

| Dec 7, 2022