An intense home video.

| Original Score: A | Dec 11, 2024

A must watch movie for anyone inspired by her work and for anyone who always feels a piece of their mother in themselves themselves.

| Feb 13, 2024

In interviews, Akerman recalls this as an exciting, happy time, but the film gives her a way to express the interiority of being twenty-one and too far away from your roots.

| Jan 24, 2024

The dual portrait of mother and daughter, of lives unmoored, by accident or by design, bares the solitude and the mourning implicit in Akerman’s do-it-yourself style.

| Jul 5, 2023

From her revolutionary depiction of real-time onscreen to her almost voyeuristic style of shooting her own life, No Home Movie epitomizes every quality that made Chantal Akerman's cinema so groundbreaking.

| Jun 12, 2020

The key to Ackerman's work is in the duration of her shots.

| Aug 2, 2019

The scenes lack context and therefore emotional resonance, even if the film's fly-on-the-wall verisimilitude has a kind of mesmerizing quality.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

For a subject so deeply ingrained with sorrow, the punishing and purposely tedious nature of No Home Movie's structure feels entirely earned -- even imperative.

| May 2, 2019

A 115-minute film hewed from some 40 hours of footage shot over a period of several months, No Home Movie has a sense of Warholian acceptance.

| Oct 5, 2017

Both elliptical and tryingly quotidian, No Home Movie is a shattering contemplation of loss and grief as much as it is a search for identity and calm...

| Oct 3, 2017

... the director's need for her subject carries an almost physical throb. Natalia is so richly anticipated in every patiently wrought, exquisitely framed tableau that her actual arrival within each one is almost beside the point.

| Sep 11, 2017

[Chantal Akerman] assumed audiences would share her interests-and they did.

| Aug 18, 2017

No Home Movie remains a loving tribute, sure to stand the test of time.

| Jul 14, 2017

Deliberately uneventful and domestic, it's a fiercely private piece given extra poignancy by Akerman's own death last year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2017

Akerman may have been left with questions about existence that she herself couldn't answer, but she asked them beautifully, often painfully, and we are privileged to be able to continue searching along with her timeless, powerful images.

| Dec 13, 2016

Long shots of barren landscapes and domestic nothingness are punctured, in true Akerman style, with momentary eruptions of pain, poignancy and, most of all, love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2016

The ingredients look so simple and raw as to be trash, but the film made from them is a piercing, precious, and sad depiction of the human craving for family and contact.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 10, 2016

It's not hard to imagine having a hostile reaction to this piece of work, so convincing is it in giving the impression of being tossed off that anyone not paying attention might overlook its calm control and the deep core of pain hidden in plain sight.

| Jun 27, 2016

Chantal Akerman's final film is both a tribute to a dying mother and the last testament of a director who would take her own life just months after the premiere, aged 65.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2016

The shooting style will drive many people to distraction (a four-minute opening shot of a bush, for instance, is a killer). But as an essay on motherhood, memory and the looming shadow of loss, it's close to exquisite.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2016