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I have an answer, have an answer.
Does anyone have a question?
An answer what for. The questions I understand, I have answered them many times.
Sometimes better, sometimes worse. But always rehashing. I always rehash. And because of this perpetual rehashing, I am bored.
My life is a long rehashing.
Must it always be so?
That is my question.

She made her first film at the age of 18: «Saute ma ville», an abstruse little piece of work that she filmed in a small kitchen. In this film, she threatened to blow up her town – and herself. Her films always explored bodies, places, time. One of the most well-known films is «Jeanne Dielmann, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles» (1975) about the daily monotony of a housewife. 201 minutes long. This film belongs to the feminist avant-garde. «Je tu il elle» belongs to the lesbian avant-garde, with some of the first authentic lesbian sex scenes in film history. 11 minutes long. She made approximately 50 films, her last one, once again, being about her (deceased) mother, a holocaust survivor: «No Home Movie». Her work was about herself, her life, her family. So Chantal Akerman did «rehash» in a certain sense. Now unfortunately she has told her last story in her last film. Last October the Belgian filmmaker commited suicide in Paris.
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