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Saute ma ville

Chantal Akerman’s plays a manic heroine in her early, incendiary critique of domesticity and conformity.

Drama 1968 13 mins Not rated

Director: Chantal Akerman

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Overview

Chantal Akerman’s debut is an incendiary critique of domesticity and conformity, the title of which translates as Blow up My Town. Playing a Chaplinesque young woman, Akerman shuts herself away in a small kitchen where she goes about various chores such as cleaning, mopping and polishing her shoes in an increasingly erratic fashion, before descending into mania and ending it all with a gas hob.

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