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Employees and clients of a commercial gallery only live for love they dream it, proclaim it, sing it and dance it Experience the encounters, reunions, passions and disappointments of a malicious chorus of girls and a group of idle

In the 70s and 80s, activist Carole Roussopoulos and actress Delphine Seyrig made use of new video technologies to fight for the womens movement Archive material documents their interventions into the events of the time

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet However, something happens that changes her safe routine

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daug

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akermans life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself

A psychoanalyst in NYC exchanges apartment with a woman in Paris When his patients show up, they talk to her and then pay He returns early to NYC and becomes a patient

A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union

Amidst a constant stream of hundreds of film clips, dozens of filmmakers voice their opinions on the titular question while primarily looking beyond the Hollywood mainstream to independent, experimental, documentary and avant garde f

Chantal Akerman films her mother, an old woman of Polish origin who is short lifetime, in her apartment in Brussels For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, sometimes accompanied by Sylvaine, Chantals

Je is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room Tu is the script Il is a lorry driver Elle is the girlfriend

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance

A psychoanalyst in NYC exchanges apartments with a woman in Paris When his patients show up, they talk to her and then pay He returns early to NYC and becomes a patient

Hotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual place as well as the people who live there, from the reception up to the last story

In a 360 circular panoramic shot the camera slowly pans an entire apartment or house When it first passes the bedroom there is nobody there but each time it shows the room again Chantal Akerman is sitting on the bed, motionles