Golden Eighties

wow men really invented capitalism just so they could get horny at the mall

sydney

chantal akerman's IN THIS ECONOMY? the musical. also, troll move to cast a pop star (lio) in a musical and not give her any singing parts.

KYK

this would make a perfect double feature with david byrne's TRUE STORIES - both films look at the shopping mall through a lens of awe and wonder, but still remain critical of the economic apparatus that led to the mall's replacement of other, less insidious venues for…

nadine

Chantal Ackerman made a shopping mall musical in the mid 80s where everyone is pretty sad and nobody gets what they want. So, you know, what you'd expect from a Chantal Ackerman romantic musical set in a shopping mall.

Justin LaLiberty

she said ye can we get married at the mall

Dante

Love Conquers Mall

Joe

aucun amour n’est jamais pour rien aucun amour n’est jamais perdu, il touche ton cœur et ton cœur en touche d’autres, tous les amours tous les rêves tous les désirs existent toujours quelque part  (à lire avec la voix enchanteresse de delphine seyrig)

capu

Like Akerman's style through a Cyndi Lauper lens. The 80s permeates through every frame to the point where this is just soaked in the images of tacky mall architecture. Shot on one sound stage giving it an almost theatre esque feeling this finds Akerman's trademark…

Willow Maclay

The choreography on this stood out most in how awkward it was. Not sure if that was intentional, but it actually acquires a kind of charm after the first sequence. It feels as though Akerman is at war with the genre and her own sensibilities, but it's not bad. It's…

Sally Jane Black