Letters Home

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Another Akerman adventure in epistolary cinema and mother-daughter relationships but this time through the prism of poet Sylvia Plath.

  • Director

    Chantal Akerman

  • With

    Delphine Seyrig, Coralie Seyrig

  • France 1986. 104min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • English subtitles

A gripping portrait of an artist and her mother, and an introspective exploration of distance and depression told through Akerman’s favourite narrative device: letters. In the 13 years between poet Sylvia Plath’s eighteenth birthday and her suicide, she wrote hundreds of letters to her mother, which are the basis for Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, staged by Françoise Merle in 1984, which pairs Seyrig and her niece Coralie, and which Akerman inventively transforms into cinema.

Restored by Centre Simone de Beauvoir.

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