News from Home (1977)

Title: News from Home

Original Title: News from Home

Release Date: 1977-05-20

Status: Released

Rating: 7.038/10 (from 79 votes)

Language: FR

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: ZDF, Paradise Films, Unité Trois, INA

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.