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Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (English: "The Meetings of Anna") is a 1978 French-Belgian-West German film by the Belgian film director Chantal Akerman.

Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
Directed by	Chantal Akerman
Written by	Chantal Akerman
Starring	Aurore Clément Jean-Pierre Cassel Magali Noël
Cinematography	Jean Penzer
Edited by	Francine Sandberg [fr]
Release date	1978 (1978)
Running time	127 minutes
Countries	Belgium France West Germany
Language	French

Plot

Anne Silver, a Belgian filmmaker, is travelling through West Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her new film. Along the way, she meets with strangers, friends, former lovers, and family members, all the while traversing an isolating and increasingly homogeneous Western Europe. Among the people she meets is her own mother, to whom she talks about falling in love with a woman who she only talks to over the phone now. At the end, she is back in her apartment, listening to messages on her answering machine, alone as ever. The calls are from various friends and/or lovers, who express frustration at her unavailability, and also a manager who wants to make sure she shows up for all of her promotional appearances. The last message is from her female lover, who is wondering where she is. Anne doesn't call anyone back.

Cast

• Aurore Clément as Anne Silver
• Jean-Pierre Cassel as Daniel
• Magali Noël as Ida
• Helmut Griem as Heinrich
• Hanns Zischler as Hans
• Lea Massari as Anne's mother

Critical reception

The movie initially was not well received, though it has since risen in prestige. Many critics found fault with what they perceived as a "scaling-back of the stylistic and thematic radicalism" to be found in Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975).[1] Rotten Tomatoes reports that 80% of five critics gave the film a positive review.[2] It received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC).[3]

References

External links

• Les Rendez-vous d'Anna at IMDb

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