Laura Mulvey on Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | BFI

Film theorist Laura Mulvey visits BFI Southbank to introduce Chantal Akerman’s chamber epic, which was voted the greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight and Sound Critics’ poll. Chantal Akerman’s opus has been voted the greatest film of all time and is arguably the greatest film about time. A ‘love film’ for Akerman’s mother – a Holocaust survivor who could never discuss her past with her daughter – and a revolution in 201 minutes. A film about women’s overlooked everyday lives (‘the lowest in the hierarchy of film images,’ Akeman noted). A film that upends epic cinema. A film about a housewife obsessed with her daily routine in order to suppress anxiety. A film about psychology but with little emotion. A film made with a mostly female crew that transformed European art cinema’s most glamorous star, Delphine Seyrig, into a seemingly unremarkable single mother. But above all, a revolutionary film due to Akerman’s treatment of time and space. 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’. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI Claim an extended BFI Player Subscription free trial (UK only) - subscribe using code BFIYOUTUBE: http://theb.fi/player-subscription Watch more on BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/ Our TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@britishfilminstitute Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/britishfilminstitute/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFI