Synopsis
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
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hey guys thank you for watching my domestic housework asmr video my name is jeanne dielman and be sure to like and subscribe if you wanna see more content like this
so fascinating to watch this and slowly recognize how quietly influential it’s been to so many pieces of media that i consider canonical to my own taste. you don’t get Lady Bird without this. you don’t get you don’t get The Florida Project without this. you don’t get Portrait of a Lady on Fire or Tomboy without this. you don’t get Parasite or the “Fly” episode of Breaking Bad without this. you don’t get the video for St. Vincent’s “Cruel” (or the entire “housewife on pills” aesthetic of Strange Mercy & “The Strangers”) without this! and yet, for something so foundational, it’s so unbelievably subtle. it’s BORING– on purpose! 3.5 hours of a routine slowly shifting, letting you settle into the…
Adam was right, I can’t stop thinking about it. A boring, frustrating, painful experience of a movie that is also kind of brilliant. A unique film you should check out if you’re willing to be bored out of your mind for nearly 3 and a half hours.
After spending three days with Jeanne Dielman I can confidently say that she is a woman who does not like to waste electricity
quietly radical. yes, it's boring, and that's the point: being a housewife is boring! especially in the 70s, when you don't have games on your phone!!! if it's this "tedious" (non-derogatory) to watch her for 3 hours and 20 minutes, imagine the drudgery of actually living it. it's sooo easy and fun to sing yes i do the cooking, yes i do the cleaning but not so to actually do it...
Chantal Akerman forces you to memorize and empathize with this woman's routine. long, static wide shots of Jeanne polishing shoes and washing dishes and brushing her hair last for several minutes with no cuts, so that when she inevitably begins to subtly unravel we take notice. so much so…
to be a woman is to be invisible.
this movie demands that you reckon with the hot dinner put on the table and the dishes that are cleaned every night. it does not ask or concede: it is bold in showing you every tedious routine of the labor we have shoved into kitchens and the back of our minds. this is not a wife putting on make-up before her husband wakes up so that he won't have to see her unblemished. this is every piece we have historically devalued and ignored.
a woman is mysterious and unknowable, as decades of movies and other media has drilled into our heads. who knows what they get up to? do they even have…
Like is usually the case with these sorts of things, the day-to-day maintenance operations of and for the patriarchal state are performed almost entirely by women. As the subjugated, enslaved class, they engaged in the preprogrammed routinized, menial labor without which the patriarchy could not be. The entire physical and psycho-emotional substrate of the apparatus of their oppression is entirely dependent upon their daily activities. Women are responsible for all custodial, caretaking tasks in support of male supremacy: cooking, cleaning, education, rearing, procreation, sexual gratification, etc. What is more, the evacuation of autonomy, of personal time, of personal thought, with the burden of near-constant routine action, is a (the?) primary modality of patriarchal oppression. 'Jeanne Dielman' is not about revolution…
lmao guys she said: "yes i do the cooking 😎 yes i do the cleaning 😜...
...and yes i do have to deal with the existential suffering generated by the loneliness and alienation i experience because of the extremely oppressive patriarchal and capitalistic society i'm hopelessly forced to live in"