"Akerman's cinema focuses our attention on her smallest gestures,
gestures that reveal character but would be lost in a more flamboyant
film: a knife that almost slips when a potato is peeled, a light turned
off unnecessarily, a facial expression of disquiet or of frustration,
the curious act of making coffee in a thermos in the morning for
drinking at lunchtime. The effect of such details, repeated and
ritualized, is cumulative. Slowly the portrait is pieced together."
Jayne Loader
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