Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman (1984)

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman (1984)

Release Date: 1984, November 19
Directors: Chantal Akerman
Countries: France
Production: Paradise Films, France 2, France 2
Cast: Aurore Clément

Overview:

A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker?