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The Meetings of Anna

Original title: Les rendez-vous d'Anna
  • 19781978
  • 2h 8m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
1.6K
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Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
Drama

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a... Read allAnna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets a... Read allAnna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel w... Read all

IMDb RATING
7.4/10
1.6K
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  • Director
    • Chantal Akerman
  • Writer
    • Chantal Akerman
  • Stars
    • Aurore Clément
    • Helmut Griem
    • Magali Noël
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  • Director
    • Chantal Akerman
  • Writer
    • Chantal Akerman
  • Stars
    • Aurore Clément
    • Helmut Griem
    • Magali Noël
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    • 16User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Aurore Clément
    Aurore Clément
    • Anna Silveras Anna Silver
    Helmut Griem
    Helmut Griem
    • Heinrich Schneideras Heinrich Schneider
    Magali Noël
    Magali Noël
    • Idaas Ida
    Hanns Zischler
    Hanns Zischler
    • Hansas Hans
    Lea Massari
    Lea Massari
    • La mère d'Annaas La mère d'Anna
    Jean-Pierre Cassel
    Jean-Pierre Cassel
    • Danielas Daniel
    Alain Berenboom
    Françoise Bonnet
    Thaddausz Kahl
    Laurent Taffein
    Victor Verek
    • Director
      • Chantal Akerman
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      • Chantal Akerman
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    Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present. —<jhailey@hotmail.com>
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    • Trivia
      This film is included in the "Chantal Akerman in the Seventies" box-set, which is part of the Criterion Collection, Eclipse series 19.
    • Quotes

      Anna Silver: [sings] I wash the dishes, Fix coffee with cream, I'm so busy, Have no time to dream. I work all day, In this cheap little place, Flowers on the table, Curtains of lace. Young lovers come here holding hands, Wide-eyed, hopeful, They make no demands. They bring in the sun, My life they enchant, A bed built for two, Is all they want. I can't forget how happy they seem, Joy on their faces, Smiles that beam, When I think of them in that sad little room, It chases away my workaday gloom, Faces that shine, Like rays of the sun, So bright that it hurts, So bright that it hurts...

    • Connections
      Featured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Les Amants d'un Jour
      Music by Marguerite Monnot

      Lyrics by Michelle Senlis and Claude Delécluse

      Performed by Aurore Clément

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    Top review
    9/10
    moody, filled with loneliness and despair, but very worthwhile film
    Les Rendezvous d'Anna opens with a shot of a train station somewhere in Germany. A woman gets off the train, and she is seen walking slowly to a phone booth, and making a call. The shot is a long one, and the woman is so far in the distance that she can barely be seen at all. This shot establishes the mood of much of the film. I have to admit that, during the first half-hour of this two-hour-plus film, I almost ejected the videocassette and gave up on it. There are many long shots of Anna with her back to the camera, standing and looking out of hotel windows, train windows, at landscapes which are at best industrial. The viewer is tempted to say "OK, I get it; get on with it!" I succumbed to that temptation more than once. If you're willing, though, as I was, to slow down, to settle in to the pace of the film, to stop expecting anything much to happen, there are many rewards for your patience here. Anna is an independent filmmaker; she's on a more-or-less continuous tour of cities to appear at cinemas with her film in an attempt to attract a larger audience. The setting of Chantal Ackerman's film is almost entirely commercial interiors: on trains, in stations, in hotels and hotel rooms. I suspect much of this mirrors Ms. Ackerman's own experience. My first response while watching was to put this film in the same category as 'Last Year at Marienbad,' or 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' great films, but bleak films. 'Anna' is a bit of a different story, though--the situation is a temporary one; Anna is a creative person out to help sell her work, not simply a symbol for existential angst. Her surroundings are bleak, but she's making sense of it as she can; during the scenes in this film where she interacts with others (two men who don't quite make it as lovers, an older woman, her estranged mother) she comes alive. She listens to people, she talks to them, she's sympathetic; she helps them as much as she can, living in a rootless world. I came away from 'Anna' with a deep sense of involvement with the character; she's still on my mind two days later. Like Anna, I sometimes feel adrift in an alien urban landscape. If you're a lover of European art film, I can recommend this film without reservation.
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    • Jun 3, 2006

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    • Release date
      • November 8, 1978 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Belgium
      • West Germany
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Meetings with Anna
    • Filming locations
      • Hotel Handelshof, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
      • Hélène Films
      • Paradise Films
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 8 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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