Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn

Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn

Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn

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Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn

1967

0h 2m

5.5(4 votes)

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Overview

A 4th short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman with her friends in Brussels, shot in front of the former Hotel van Cleve-Ravenstein coincidentally the place where now CINEMATEK and the archives of the Chantel Akerman Fondation are residing.

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Marilyn Watelet

Marilyn Watelet

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Directed by: Chantal Akerman

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