If you loved Hotel Monterey, try No Home Movie
Un ponte tra un film che hai già visto e uno che quasi nessuno ha incrociato. Questo è ciò che condividono, e ciò che il secondo fa che il primo non fa.
Cosa condividono
Both films are directed by Chantal Akerman, and they both carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Documentary territory. If that's the register that drew you to Hotel Monterey, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What No Home Movie is
Chantal Akerman films her mother Natalia in their Brussels apartment, where quiet meals, hushed conversations, and fragmented memories unfold over two hours, with sister Sylvaine occasionally joining. Interspersed are Skype calls from Akerman’s distant locations—Oklahoma, New York—revealing how geography no longer dictates proximity, yet loneliness lingers in the gaps. A tender, unvarnished portrait of time, distance, and the ordinary rituals that hold a life together.

