News from Home (1977)
"Write to me, it’s all I ask."
Title: News from Home
Original Title: News from Home
Release Date: 1977-05-20
Status: Released
Rating: 6.953/10 (from 85 votes)
Language: FR
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: ZDF, Paradise Films, Unité Trois, INA
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.
Cast
Chantal Akerman
Narrator (voice)
