News from Home (1976)

The pulse of New York City reverberates through the lens, capturing its impersonal yet mesmerizing rhythm. Chantal Akerman’s life unfolds against this backdrop, while letters from her mother in Brussels, full of love yet tinged with manipulation, are read aloud by Akerman herself. As the city’s presence intensifies, the voice from home begins to wane, drawing a delicate tension between the life lived and the life left behind.