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The Meetings of Anna

Original title: Les rendez-vous d'Anna
  • 1978
  • 2h 8m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
1.9K
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The Meetings of 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

  • Director
    • Chantal Akerman
  • Writer
    • Chantal Akerman
  • Stars
    • Aurore Clément
    • Helmut Griem
    • Magali Noël
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    1.9K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Chantal Akerman
    • Writer
      • Chantal Akerman
    • Stars
      • Aurore Clément
      • Helmut Griem
      • Magali Noël
    • 18User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination

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    Aurore Clément
    Aurore Clément
    • Anna Silver
    Helmut Griem
    Helmut Griem
    • Heinrich Schneider
    Magali Noël
    Magali Noël
    • Ida
    Hanns Zischler
    Hanns Zischler
    • Hans
    Lea Massari
    Lea Massari
    • La mère d'Anna
    Jean-Pierre Cassel
    Jean-Pierre Cassel
    • Daniel
    Alain Berenboom
    Françoise Bonnet
    Thaddausz Kahl
    Laurent Taffein
    Victor Verek
    • Director
      • Chantal Akerman
    • Writer
      • Chantal Akerman
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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

    User reviews18

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    8/10
    Strong use of camera-work to tell an intimate story
    Amazingly shot, with the film always demonstrating a tremendous, disciplined use of image to convey mood and story. The film is full of long takes using striking symmetry; the camera is always finding frames within frames. For me, the story itself is interesting intellectually, but does lack emotional power; traveling to a film festival, a young femme filmmaker has a series of sadly empty encounters with people, leading to long, well-written monologues by the various lost souls. Sometimes too on the nose and speechy with its ideas, but always intelligent, physically beautiful film-making. For those with patience and an interest in image as well as story.
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    • Jun 2, 2010

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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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