BFI Southbank
This world-renowned film centre with four first-class screens is a film lover's paradise.
In 2022 the film magazine Sight & Sound released its once-in-a-decade poll ranking what critics, filmmakers and curators consider to be the 250 Greatest Films of All Time. The globally admired poll has been carried out every ten years since 1952 and is widely considered a key arbiter of taste and talent for dedicated cinemagoers.
Taking the number one spot in the 2022 poll was Chantal Akerman’s 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.
This extraordinary film is deeply admired for its revolutionary treatment of time and space and will be returning to the BFI Southbank in February and March as part of the Akerman season Adventures in Perception.
Described as “a magnificent epic of experimental cinema offering a feminist perspective on recurrent events of everyday life”, according to critics to watch Jeanne Dielman “is to submit to Akerman’s unrelenting gaze and to be trapped with Jeanne: ‘to have the physical experience of time unfolding inside you, of time entering you…"
Throughout the next two months the BFI Southbank hosts 20+ screenings of the iconic film, as well as a variety of other special events devoted to the extraordinary work of Chantal Akerman.
Find out more and book your ticket here!
