A Belgian film is chosen as the best in history

A Belgian film is chosen as the best in history

“‘Jeanne Dielman’ challenged the status quo when it came out in 1975 and continues to do so today,” the editor-in-chief of The Dielman said in a statement. Sight&Sound, Mike Williams“It is a historical feminist film”, completed the specialist.

Starring Delphine SeyrigAkerman’s film narrates the day-to-day life of a widowed mother of a son who, after having completed all her domestic chores, works as a prostitute at night.

To complete the survey, the magazine Sight&Sound convened 1,639 figures including critics, distributors and film experts to vote for the 100 best films of all time.

In addition to first place for “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”followed by “Vertigo” Y “The citizen”the top 10 of the poll result follows with “Tokyo Story” (1953) of yasujir ozu; Y “In the Mood for Love” (2000), from Wong Kar Wai.

they follow him “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), by stanley kubrick; “beautiful task” (1998), by Claire Denis; “The path of dreams” (2001), from David Lynch; “The man with the camera” (1929) of Dziga Vertov; Y “Singing under the rain” (1951), by gene kelly Y Stanley Donen.

Among the one hundred titles chosen, only a handful correspond to films from the last decade, such as “Portrait of a Woman on Fire” (2019), by Celine Sciamma, Moonlight (2016), by Barry Jenkins (2016) “Parasites” (2019), by bong joonho; “Flees!” (2017), by Jordan Peele.

For their part, only two animated films appear on the list: “My Neighbor Totoro”(1988) and “Spirited Away” (2001), both of Hayao Miyazaki.

It should be noted that among the 100 films most voted for by specialists, there is no Latin American film.

Source: Ambito

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