Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
Directed by	Chantal Akerman
Written by	Chantal Akerman
Starring	Aurore Clément Jean-Pierre Cassel Magali Noël
Cinematography	Jean Penzer
Edited by	Francine Sandberg
Release date	1978 (1978)
Running time	127 minutes
Countries	Belgium France West Germany
Language	French

Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (English: "The Meetings of Anna") is a 1979 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 her lesbianism.

Cast

• Aurore Clément as Anne Silver
• Jean-Pierre Cassel as Daniel
• Magali Noël as Ida
• Helmut Griem as Heinrich
• Hanns Zischler as Hans
• Lea Massari as Anne's mother

Critical reception

The movie was not initially well received. 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). Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 80% of five critics gave the film a positive review, for an average of 8/10.

External links

• Les Rendez-vous d'Anna at IMDb