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Film19771h 29m
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- Director
- Chantal Akerman
- Language
- French
- Released
- 1977-05-20
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
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7.091 votes on TMDB
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Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
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