Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Over three days a Brussels widow cooks her son's meals, washes up, shines shoes, switches off each light as she leaves the room, and receives one paying male visitor every afternoon, the housework held at its real length in fixed frames set at her own eye height. Then the potatoes are overcooked, a spoon goes back in the wrong place, and the order begins to slip. Topped the Sight and Sound critics' poll in 2022, the first film by a woman to do so, and the standard reference for duration used as an argument about whose time counts.
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