Saute ma ville
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Made when the director was just eighteen, Chantal Akerman’s debut film is a blistering first expression of what would become one of her major themes: women’s confinement in and rebellion against the domestic sphere. Akerman plays a young woman who, alone in her kitchen, enacts a savaging of traditional domestic rituals that leads to a literally explosive climax. (Criterion)
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We should evaluate a work of art only "here and now" and try not to overly incorporate external factors into its assessment: the most dangerous thing in this regard is the inclusion of the author's personal life. I mostly agree, but here I cannot - Chantal Akerman's life and work should serve as an example as the muse of cinema. Certainly, Blow Up My Town is not an extraordinary work in and of itself, but... the freshness with which a barely adult girl decides to jump (and certainly in no way sophisticatedly) into the film, mainly into a socially, gender-sensitive topic. Here, of course, Jeanne Dielman is born, whose defiance against the conventions imposed on women by the male world takes on a reversed form in Blow Up My Town, as the author herself expressed later and there is no doubt about it. The muse of cinema: making films experimentally, sometimes lightly (even musicals, comedies) - but always striving to make something new and, most importantly, to make films ABOUT SOMETHING. Although it may not be evident to the conventional viewer at first glance, beneath the heavy experimental form or, as in this case, under the façade of youthful barefoot comedy, there was always a real person hidden, whether female or male, but always real.
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