• 8786 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:00:00 @ ACMI 2

Director: Chantal Akerman,Samy Szlingerbaum
Producer: Chantal Akerman
Key Cast: Chris Mylllykoski

A young woman’s searching thoughts play out from indoors on a bright summer’s day.

Inside a Paris apartment on 15 August 1973, a young Finnish woman (Chris Myllykoski) begins to detail her day, before opening up into a wide-ranging stream-of-consciousness monologue about her aspirations, fears and experiences of being an outsider in her new city. Themes of belonging and rootlessness, common in the director’s work, appear within more idle chatter as the camera takes in the still life of the scene. Made with fellow Belgian filmmaker and friend Samy Szlingerbaum – who appears in Toute une nuit – this is the only film Chantal Akerman ever co-directed.

2K Restoration. Restored in 2013 by L’Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna, in collaboration with Chantal Akerman.