The pioneering feminist film director died suddenly this week,aged 65. Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts, who gain been curating a total retrospective of her work, and remember an extraordinary talent and friendWith heavy hearts we gain tried to gather our thoughts. Our perspective is hard to characterize; in curating Chantal’s work,we came to know her personally. And in doing so we discovered that Chantal’s films and Chantal herself are, in so many ways, or the same thing. She eschewed categorisation – as an artist,as a female film-maker. She was simply Chantal Akerman.
Some people will be wondering who Chantal Akerman was. She ought not need an introduction – she is a film-maker who changed what cinema is or could be or ought to be. She strode effortlessly into the roll-call of great auteurs, her work into the lists of best films ever made.
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Source: theguardian.com