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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Akerman’s film, it finds charged intimacy and self-definition in duration, repetition, and bodies sharing a space; its patient observational form lets small gestures become emotionally immense.
02
Why this pick
Akerman again turns travel, hotel rooms, and spare conversations into a rigorously composed study of solitude and tentative connection, with the same cool surface and accumulating emotional force.
03
Why this pick
Its fixed, prolonged views of New York and letters read aloud extend the radical attention to isolation, routine, distance, and offscreen feeling that shapes Je, Tu, Il, Elle.
04
Why this pick
A woman drifts through stark industrial landscapes in an unvarnished, intimate portrait of alienation. Its minimal plotting and uncompromising focus on a woman’s presence closely suit Akerman’s austere intensity.
05
Why this pick
Akerman’s landmark use of real time, domestic ritual, and exact framing transforms everyday labor into suspenseful inner experience—an essential companion to the formal daring and bodily focus of Je, Tu, Il, Elle.
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01 / THE STORY
Julie, a young woman alone in a room moves her furniture, writes letters, and eats granulated sugar. She leaves her room and finds a driver with whom she eats and drinks. Later, she joins a young woman with whom she has sex.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Truck-driver
