La Chambre

Posted On: October 30, 2011
Posted In: Babette Mangolte, Chantal Akerman La Chambre, La Chambre
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In ‘La Chambre’ (shot by Babette Mangolte), the camera takes in a room in 360-degree pans; a woman (Akerman) lies eating an apple. Offscreen voices reflect, in a kind of verbal counterpoint, the “mirror” into which the young woman informs us she is looking. A film of enclosure and repetition. Adrian Martin writes: “Akerman provides a mirror for our own activity as spectators, as we negotiate the illusions and lures of narrative.”

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