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

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

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

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

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

We'll miss you, Chantal.

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

Chantal Akerman's final film has almost unbearable poignancy and melancholy ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2016

This is not an easy film to watch but its power and poignancy are only increased by the circumstances in which it was made.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2016

Long episodes of helpless tedium interspersed with brief moments of intense heartbreak.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2016

Akerman ... is her own best spokesperson as she discusses her films at locations where they were shot.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 19, 2016

It's almost unbearably sad, but the deep affection and connection Akerman has for her subject thrums through every scene, even the ones in which they speak on Skype, Akerman from different locations around the world.

| May 4, 2016

It's an exceptionally challenging and enigmatic work, especially for Akerman neophytes, but there's an intimacy to it that's occasionally startling.

| Apr 1, 2016

If you let it, "No Home Movie" invites you in first with its intimacy and then its deep feeling.

| Mar 31, 2016

There is an element of drama that an audience very familiar with Akerman's work can't help but project on to the pointedly non-eventful footage.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 30, 2016

The combination of memoir and abstraction is both cerebral and heartrending.

| Mar 17, 2016

For Chantal Akerman, there can be no home, there can be no movie, and there certainly cannot be a combination of the two.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 22, 2015