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Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
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Wikipedia article
'Les Rendez-vous d'Anna' is a 1978 French-Belgian-West German film by the Belgian film director Chantal Akerman.
Plot
Anne Silver, a Belgian filmmaker, is travelling through West Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her new film. Along the way, she meets with strangers, friends, former lovers, and family members, all the while traversing an isolating and increasingly homogeneous Western Europe. Among the people she meets is her own mother, to whom she talks about falling in love with a woman who she only talks to over the phone now. At the end, she is back in her apartment, listening to messages on her answering machine, alone as ever. The calls are from various friends and/or lovers, who express frustration at her unavailability, and also a manager who wants to make sure she shows up for all of her promotional appearances. The last message is from her female lover, who is wondering where she is. Anne doesn't call anyone back.
Cast
* Aurore Clment as Anne Silver
* Jean-Pierre Cassel as Daniel
* Magali Nol as Ida
* Helmut Griem as Heinrich
* Hanns Zischler as Hans
* Lea Massari as Anne's mother
Critical reception
The movie initially was not well received, though it has since risen in prestige. Many critics found fault with what they perceived as a "scaling-back of the stylistic and thematic radicalism" to be found in Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles' (1975).Cronk, Jordan and Calum Marsh [http://www.popmatters.com/post/153102-reframed-no.-17-chantal-akermans-les-rendez-vous-danna-1978/ "Reframed No. 17: Chantal Akerman's 'Les Rendez-vous d'Anna' (1978)"], 'PopMatters', 11 January 2012. Retrieved on 29 October 2015. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 80% of five critics gave the film a positive review. It received the Andr Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC).
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