No Home Movie

Name: No Home Movie
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-02-24
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman

2016·Documentary·1h 53m

8.1

★

Akerman films her mother Natalia, an elderly woman of Polish origin, in her Brussels apartment. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, sometimes accompanied by Sylvaine, Chantal's sister. Also, and to show how small the world has become, Chantal remains in contact with her mother at other times of the year via Skype from lands as far away from Belgium as Oklahoma or New York.

Directed by Chantal Akerman

woman director

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3.8 / 5

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Chantal Akerman

Self

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Chantal Akerman

Director

Chantal Akerman

Writer

Chantal Akerman

Director of Photography

Patrick Quinet

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Chantal Akerman

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Chantal Akerman

Sound

Peter Bernaers

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Popular Reviews

19 reviews

mintbanana

8.0★ · 11/24/25

🥺임미…ㅠ🥺

Franek Łuczak

9.8★ · 07/03/25

Jeden z piękniejszych testamentów miłości jaki można dokonać przy pomocy kina.

chloe donges

such a thought provoking and emotional film what makes you reflect a lot on your own relationships with maternal figures but it is definitely hard to get through and i will probably not watch again

cyrian

8.3★ · 04/26/25

je finis donc la filmo d’akerman (fin il me reste 1 film mais il est introuvable donc bon…)

dans toute sa filmo on ressent l’importance de sa mère donc le fait que son dernier film ce soit un docu avec et sur sa mère c’est incroyable. et le fait de savoir que sa mère soit morte avant la sortie du film, ça le rends vraiment touchant.

bref, repose en paix chantal, t’as fait de supers films et t’en aurait fait plein d’autres super j’en suis sûr (le confinement elle aurait tapé un de ces classiques purée)

polina

9.0★ · 01/03/25

when I wrote that 'News from home' could probably be called Chantal Akerman’s most personal film, I was not quite right. the most personal thing in her filmography was, in many ways, a continuation of the film mentioned before — 'No home movie’. the relationship between a mother and daughter is dealt with in most of the director's movies. therefore, it is not surprising that Chantal's final work was a documentary about her mother. the title "No home movie" exemplifies Akerman's perspective on life, as she has never had a place to call her own. throughout her life, she has traversed the globe in search of it. the director moved around Belgium, Germany, and France like her character from ‘The Meetings of Anna’. but the closest place she could call home was where her mom lived. and after she lost her, she had nowhere to return to.> all of Chantal's works revolves around the passage of time, and this film is no exception. the relationship between mother and daughter grows and changes over the years, how new technologies influence communication between them, and how past traumatic experiences affect Natalia Akerman's life now are all explored in this one. of course, there is an anxiety in the director's desire to capture all the time spent with his mother on camera. you want to capture every moment, because a person is not eternal, but the recorded moments that you spent together are. this proves that I just watched this film when not only her mother, but also Chantal Akerman herself, were gone, and excerpts from sincere conversations in the kitchen between them were still preserved.

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