Question
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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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 20 | 15.50 | 100% | 50% | 5% |
Data
| Chicago A | Houston A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Virginia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| South Carolina A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Brown A | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Penn State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |