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Akerman lets you read the image for yourself, even as she has also carefully laid out the movie’s meaning in every previous edit, shot and word, including her mother’s remembrances of the family’s history, about keeping kosher, about the flight from Poland, the Nazis and the war. Again, as she does with the image of the shuddering tree, Ms. There’s no overt explanation for them there’s no voice-over commentary and none of the traditional documentary time, date and location markers. Akerman cuts to a succession of traveling shots of a desert. There’s a rootlessness to her, as even her meanderings through her mother’s apartment suggest. Akerman’s filmography, which sent her across the globe, from the Baltics to Mexico, has turned her into one of cinema’s nomads, as have the festivals (Berlin, Cannes, New York) in which her work has been presented. In time, though, her mother grows increasingly frail, they also assume an undertow of sadness. Akerman had turned on the camera seconds before she and her mother began talking. Like the rest of the movie, they have the spontaneity and ineffable fascination of real life it feels as if Ms. These Skype talks charm you with sweet declarations (“kisses”) and some gentle comedy ( Maman is a bit technologically challenged), although mostly with their unguarded intimacy. Mostly, though, there is this resolute, trembling tree perched on what looks like an abyss. If you stay, you notice the wire (telephone?) across the bottom right corner, the road that bisects the image horizontally and the distant hills capped by the pale sky. Akerman adjusts the framing, always keeping the tree on the left - and because she holds on it for more than four minutes, you either look at it, really look at it, or leave. It’s a simple, seemingly artless and largely stationary shot - Ms. It’s an old tree by the looks of the spindly, half-bare branches shuddering violently in the wind. Yet the first image in “No Home Movie” is of a tree in a desert.
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Akerman has for her mother, who returns it in kind - that suffuses it.
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Yet this makes the movie sound far too bleak, especially in light of the love - the love that Ms. Her death makes “No Home Movie” even more of a memento mori than perhaps it might have seemed when she finished it, given her mother’s impending death. One of the most influential filmmakers of the past several decades, she leaves behind two-dozen features, including “No Home Movie,” which serves as a conceptual and emotional counterpoint to her early masterwork, “ Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (1975), which she made when she was 25.
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Akerman died in October, apparently a suicide, at 65. The first time I watched it, her heavy silence was painful to see the second time, watching had turned into raw feeling because Ms. Akerman’s melancholy hangs over the scene like funeral crepe. Her mother, Natalia, has been failing and Ms. She just ties her shoes, draws the curtains and exits, letting the shot linger on the empty room. Seated on a bed in a dark, sparsely furnished room with a single window, she doesn’t say anything. The last time the filmmaker Chantal Akerman appears in “No Home Movie” she’s tying her shoelaces.