France, Belgium
1975
86 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
French
In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend. With its famous real-time carnal encounter and its daring minimalism, Je tu il elle is Akerman’s most sexually audacious film.
| Julie | Chantal Akerman |
| Truck driver | Niels Arestrup |
| Girlfriend | Claire Wauthion |
| Director | Chantal Akerman |
| Screenplay | Chantal Akerman |
| Cinematography | Bénédicte Delesalle |
| Editing | Luc Freche |
| Sound | Samy Szlingerbaum |
Babette Mangolte, the French-born, New York–residing artist best known to Criterion viewers for her work as cinematographer on so many of Chantal Akerman’s films (including most of the director’s influential seventies work, such as Hotel Monterey, Je tu il elle, and . . .
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