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News from Home

  • 1976
  • 1h 25m
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News from Home (1976)
The Oscar-winning actress shares a special list of films that inspire hope in an effort to help support those without a place to call home amidst our global health crisis.
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Impersonal but beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.Impersonal but beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.Impersonal but beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.

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    Chantal Akerman
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    • Trivia
      When Akerman's mother writes her father lost 300,000 francs due to a client's bankruptcy, that would equate to about $8,300 at the time or $38,100 in 2019.
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      Herself - Letter Reader: Dearest child, I received your letter and hope you'll write often. In any case, I hope you'll be home soon. I hope you're behaving and that you've found work by now. I think you're happy in New York, so we're happy too, even though we do miss you. When will you be back?

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    An entrancing art piece.
    If you've ever wanted to just stand in front of a painting and stare at it, this is your chance. Or, alternately, like a whole gallery of your favorite artist for you spend an hour and a half studying their pieces.

    "News From Home" gives you that chance. It isn't a movie for the average viewer, or even the average museum goer. It's introspective, spellbinding and gorgeous, given a chance. I loaned it to a friend and suggested he "let yourself go" while watching it, and he reported "it turned into magic once I let it flow through me."

    If you want things that blow up, swear words, and sex, you are in the way wrong place sister. This is one of the best art films I have ever seen, without all that inaccesible interiority of so many other "art" film makers.

    It's more like a personal documentary, which sounds impossible to pull off doesn't it? Well, Derek Jarman's "Blue" pales to this private gallery of scenery and emotion, which makes "News" far advanced, cuz "Blue" is my fave of his.
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    • Release date
      • June 8, 1977 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Belgium
      • France
      • West Germany
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    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Briefe von zu Haus
    • Filming locations
      • Tribeca, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
      • Paradise Films
      • Unité Trois
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      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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