Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

A woman – Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), an apartment, three days. The camera stubbornly observes Dielman in long fixed takes as she carries out her daily routines in what seems like a self-contained world – she clears up, makes the beds, dusts, washes up, and cooks. In the afternoon, she receives older gentlemen - even her casual prostitution has a set place in the precise way her day unfolds. On the second day, at first barely noticeably, the rigid time and spatial structures are shattered, and on the third the inevitable escalation takes place. A quiet, lonely Kammerspiel whose choreography of gestures, movements and rituals bears radical witness to emotional stultification. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE - 1080 BRUXELLES (Belgium/F 1975) by Chantal Akerman was voted the best film of all time by the Sight & Sound Critics Poll 2022. It's the first time a female director has topped the list! Every ten years, Sight & Sound magazine asks critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics to cast their top ten vote. In the new poll, JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE - 1080 BRUXELLES took the spot ahead of Hitchcock's Vertigo. To mark the occasion, JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE - 1080 BRUXELLES can be seen on the arsenal 3 streaming platform until the end of March.