The Meetings of Anna (Les Rendez-vous d'Anna)

Name: The Meetings of Anna (Les Rendez-vous d'Anna)
Duration: 2 h 8 min

2hr 8m

4.1/5 (4.5K)

2hr 8m
4.1/5 (4.5K)

Director Anna traverses Europe for film events, encountering strangers, family, and a Polish Jewish refugee friend, listening to their personal stories. The… More Details »

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Director:

Chantal Akerman

Producer:

Alain Dahan

Release Date:

Jan 1, 1978

Runtime:

2hr 8m

Synopsis

Director Anna traverses Europe for film events, encountering strangers, family, and a Polish Jewish refugee friend, listening to their personal stories. The aftermath of war persists throughout her journey across the continent.

Cast

Aurore Clément
Helmut Griem
Magali Noël
Hanns Zischler
Lea Massari
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Alain Berenboom
Françoise Bonnet
Thaddausz Kahl
Laurent Taffein

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4.1

RATINGS 487 FANS

4.1

Nov 27, 2013

It's been about an hour since the final voice message played and this film closed and I sit here absolutely floored by the power of Chantal Akerman's cinema. Her work specifically in the 70s has become something of great importance to me personally. Her films in this period…

819 Likes

Willow Maclay

Jan 25, 2018

i feel so seen and unseen. with such long, stationary takes, akerman (as she did so masterfully in jeanne dielman) invites you to step into the frame. there are so many quiet moments but never a dull one. it’ll be hard to shake that forlorn feeling by the end.

515 Likes

KYK

Aug 8, 2020

“you say you’re happy and i believe you. you look happy.” hearing someone that has known anna her whole life tell her she looks happy just proves how little others are able to understand her. or how little they tune into her, while looking at her to provide something for…

483 Likes

Laura
Dec 29, 2019

anna talking to men: 😐 anna talking to / about women: 😊

358 Likes

eely

Oct 20, 2017

"I miss you. I have no one to talk to." "But you never talked to me." Feelings of loneliness and isolation radiate through every frame, yet there's just enough tenderness to keep me going. People are drawn to Anna, and they want to tell her everything, but to know…

298 Likes

Jacob

Jun 10, 2014

In New Orleans, everything is demarcated temporally as "before the storm" or "after the storm." The entire world is shaped and colored by Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods, and it comes up in unexpected ways, from casual references used to indicate when something…

284 Likes

Sally Jane Black
Jan 10, 2022

Anna is a receptacle into which other people pour their loneliness and regret. At times, it's hard not to see her as a victim, a woman who stands still long enough for men she doesn't know to tell her about their emotional pain; their rootlessness; their fears for both…

225 Likes

sakana1

Aug 17, 2019

yeah I’m pretty sure Chantal Akerman invented film endings

183 Likes

rudi

Jan 31, 2024

Chantal Akerman’s Beautiful World, Where are you?. More seriously, I love how this manages to balance the experimental filmmaker now has a budget and the familiarity that comes with it, with doubling down the sense of alienation of her other 70s movies do so feels less…

178 Likes

Filipe Furtado