Should You Watch the New #1 Greatest Movie Ever?
I watched "Jeanne Dielman" so that you don't have to.
As many of you know, the British Film Institute’s once-a-decade poll, Sight and Sound, came out last November, and a new #1 film stormed to the top of the list.
That film is the pedantically titled “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.” As we’ll see, the title is pedantic because the movie is the same, for a host of artistic reasons.
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