MY MOTHER'S LAUGH

In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, fe eding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't tal k about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life, she placed stills from her films. My Mother Laughs is both the distillation of the the mes Aker...[Llegir més]