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The Meetings of Anna

Original title: Les rendez-vous d'Anna
  • 19781978
  • 2h 8m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
1.7K
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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
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1.7K
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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
    • 18Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    La chambre (1972)
    Aurore Clément in Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
    Aurore Clément in Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
    Jean-Pierre Cassel in Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
    Aurore Clément in Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
    Aurore Clément in Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
    Aurore Clément in Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
    Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
    Aurore Clément in Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
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    Aurore Clément in Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
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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>
    • existential loneliness
    • long take
    • feminist film
    • kiss
    • sex scene
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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 reviews16

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    Top review
    7/10
    Moody film for patient viewers
    "Les Rendez-vous d'Anna" is the only film of Chantal Akerman's which I've seen. It is seemingly a highly personal film about a few days in the life of a female Belgian filmmaker who is traveling around Europe showing her latest work. There are long shots of traveling, whether by train, car or taxi, during which...well,nothing really happens. Kind of like real life. The Europe which is observed all looks the same, pretty much - sterile and dispiriting, rather like the Anna's life. Hardly a tree is seen in the whole movie and Anna actually tells her German lover that she doesn't much care for flowers - nature seems to have been blotted out. She has encounters on her travels with a sensitive, handsome German whom she rejects, a long-time friend of her mother's who wants Anna to settle down and marry her son, a German man who has travelled the world and is now decided on living in France which he declares the land of freedom, her mother in Brussels and her Parisian lover. Through all the encounters, Anna remains detached and pretty much a blank slate. She doesn't really seem to know what she is looking for, but it doesn't seem to be commitment of any kind. Clement is purposefully reserved and detached in the lead role, but the people she meets offer opportunities for several sharp well-turned performances, namely from Magali Noel, Lea Massari and Hans Zischler who is great as the rootless traveler searching for "freedom". "Anna" is an interesting, moody film but definitely not for those looking for action or entertainment. If that is your thing, avoid this film like the plague - but if you are a patient viewer who likes to be immersed in a mood and read between the lines, so to speak, this film may appeal to you.
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    • Oct 12, 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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