Catherine Fowler

Lucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable. Sight & Sound Catherine Fowler’s study positions Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as a ‘contrary’ classic, its contrariness arising from director Chantal Akerman’s decision to frame an unliberated housewife through a kind of ‘slow looking’. By choosing to stay with Jeanne in the kitchen, the film both ‘differences’ the canon and diverges...