A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film – told through five…
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.
A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the…