News from Home comes through as “love letters” to the filmmaker in New York from her mother in Brussels. The elegiac tone of the text is counterpointed by the flat monotone of Chantal Akerman’s recitation and the images of Manhattan as an alien and empty ghost-town, in a precise portrait of alienation in an urban environment. A classic of documentary filmmaking.
- Duration: 89’
- Production year: 1976
- Country: BE, FR, DE
- Language: FR Subtitles: PT
Cannes Film Festival 1977 – L’Air du temps
