Blow Up My Town

  • Belgium Saute ma ville
Short
Belgium, 1968, 11 min

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Made when the director was just eighteen, Chantal Akerman’s debut film is a blistering first expression of what would become one of her major themes: women’s confinement in and rebellion against the domestic sphere. Akerman plays a young woman who, alone in her kitchen, enacts a savaging of traditional domestic rituals that leads to a literally explosive climax. (Criterion)

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