News from Home

7.0

1977

1h 29m

Documentary

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Overview

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.

Director: Chantal Akerman

Cast

Chantal Akerman

Narrator (voice)

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