Jeanne Dielman, 23,quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

“An astonishingly moving and radical achievement....Jeanne Dielman has lost none of its power.”—Wall Street Journal

The late Belgian-born director Chantal Akerman gained international acclaim in 1975 with Jeanne Dielman, one of the rare films to almost instantly enter the canon of global postwar cinema. Depicting the double life and domestic rituals of a widow and mother, Delphine Seyrig inhabits the title role in one of modern cinema’s most hypnotic performances. (201 mins., DCP)