It’s the first female-directed film to land the SightSoundmag poll’s top spot.
. This year, the list made history by awarding the number one spot to a female director, with Chantal Akerman’s 1975 minimalist Belgian drama,More than 1,600 international film professionals, including academics, directors, writers, critics, curators and programmers voted in the poll, which is backed by the prestigious British Film Institute., which at a 3 hour and 20 minute run time dutifully follows the repetitive daily routine of a middle-aged widow over the course of three days.
The film, directed by Akerman when she was 25, received critical acclaim upon its release, being called “the first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of the cinema” byThe top five of 2022 includes
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