Rediscover: South - Spectrum Culture

Rediscover: South - Spectrum Culture

The perception of legendary filmmaker Chantal Akerman is, for the film laymen and newcomers, often 1 to 1 with her breakout masterpiece Jeanne Dielman; a long, austere film which covers a surprisingly vast amount of ground, but one which is at least somewhat about the drudgery of female gender roles. It’s a (largely reductive) reputation that followed her throughout her life, mostly by those who had scoffed at her (indeed, quite slow) ‘70s mater…