Les Rendez-vous d’Anna

Meetings with Anna

A quasi self-portrait that was unfairly neglected on its release, this road movie is a profound musing on loneliness, displacement and the long shadow of the war.

  • Director

    Chantal Akerman

  • With

    Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler

  • Belgium-France-Germany 1978. 127min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • English subtitles

In one of Akerman’s most penetrating character studies, an accomplished filmmaker makes her way through a series of Western European cities to promote her newest release... passing through a succession of exquisitely shot brief encounters, meeting a succession of equally lost souls, which gradually reveal her emotional and physical detachment from the world. This semi-autobiographical film was a major step forward for the itinerant Akerman, mirroring her own, often turbulent, wanderings.

The screening on Friday 7 February will will be presented with additional Descriptive Subtitles of non-dialogue audio.

The screening of Les Rendez-vous d’Anna on Friday 21 February 18:00 NFT1 will include an introduction.

Also available on BFI Player