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Actor Babette Mangolte

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Babette Mangolte is a French cinematographer, film director, and photographer who has lived and worked in the United States since 1970. She is best known for her work with film director Chantal Akerman.

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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1976 ( 7.433)

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.

News from Home 1977 ( 7.038)

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.

The Room 1972 ( 5.3)

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough formal experiment is Akerman's first film made in New York.