No Home Movie ( Chantal Akerman, 2015): Belgium | France

Reviewed by Kendall Crumley. Viewed at the AFI Fest 2015.

This Film was incredibly slow, many long shots were shown. It was definitely a certain type of cinematography that I’m not used to.

Throughout the movie the mother and daughter relationship was showed and the health of the mother was slowly revealed, her age was affecting her in negative ways. Slowly her arms were difficult to move, her coughing would become unbearable to listen to and it became important that she didn’t sleep too often.

The memories that the daughter and mother would share in the film was informing, the audience learning more and more about the characters on screen. To enter the lives of the cast was in my opinion interesting.