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News from Home

Name: News from Home
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1977-05-20
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Chantal Akerman

Write to me, it’s all I ask.

1977 · 1h 29m · 7.0 on TMDB

Documentary

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.

Cast

Chantal Akerman
Narrator (voice)

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Released: May 20, 1977

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