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My ★★★★★ review of News from Home (1976) on #Letterboxd
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boxd.itA ★★★★★ review of News from Home (1976)If the word 'mesmerizing' did not exist, I would have been invented to describe this chef d'oeuvre (and she had plenty of those) by the unparalleled Chantal Akerman. “This is one of the best depictions of the alienation of exile that I know.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum Roger Ebert: "After “Jeanne Dielman”, she would make three more masterpieces before the decade was over. The first is “Je, Tu, Il, Elle,” on which more in a moment. The next two were autobiographical inverses. “News from Home” is a trance-like documentary that features Akerman reading letters from her mother over footage of her