Talk:Chantal Akerman

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First thread[edit]

Can someone who actually knows how to write please edit this page? It's so bad that I don't even wanna bother.

I think the second paragraph is a machine translation. Pitiful entry. << so fix it dear Liza dear Liza dear Liza

Financing Saute ma ville[edit]

The article's phrasing: "She partially subsidized Saute ma ville by selling shares on the Antwerp diamond exchange, procuring its remaining budget through her clerical work", is unclear. It makes it sound as if she owned securities, and sold some of them to raise money for the film.

What the cited Criterion source actually says is, "[she] worked selling diamond shares on the Antwerp stock exchange to raise money to make Saute ma ville." That makes it sound like she was a broker, or more likely, since she was an 18-year-old drop-out, some kind of clerk for a broker.

The only other source I've found for this is: Smith, Dinitia (26 April 1998). "Chantal Akerman and the Point of Point of View". The New York Times.  Smith writes, "To finance her first film she sold shares for $3 each on the Antwerp diamond exchange, raising $300." That doesn't quite mesh with Criterion, it implies that she sold shares of the short film.

Can anyone supply a clearer reliable reference on this point, perhaps from closer to 1971? Worldbruce (talk) 08:33, 14 May 2015 (UTC)