In one scene, this character is framed against a green marble backsplash as she methodically washes herself. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character played by Delphine Seyrig in a feminist work of “slow cinema.” This character’s daily routine starts to unravel when she overcooks some potatoes.
ANSWER: Jeanne Dielman (“zhahn deel-MAHN”) [or Jeanne Dielman]
[10e] Chantal Akerman’s film Jeanne Dielman was named by the 2022 Sight & Sound critics’ poll as the greatest film of all time, replacing this Hitchcock thriller about a detective’s obsession with a woman who falls from a bell tower at its end.
ANSWER: Vertigo
[10h] An Akerman film whose title ends with this word consists of shots of New York while a narrator reads letters sent by Akerman’s mother. This is the second word in the title of Akerman’s final film, which documents the end of her mother’s life.
ANSWER: home [accept News From Home; accept No Home Movie]
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