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The Meetings of Anna

1978 · 128 min

A quiet, drifting journey through impersonal hotel rooms and train stations, where long conversations and silences leave you sitting with a profound, unspoken loneliness.

Overview
Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old faces, some of whom make personal revelations to her to little affect.
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • identity
  • sexuality
  • memory
Places
  • big city
  • road trip
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour1
Realism9
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Chantal Akerman
Written by
Chantal Akerman
Starring
Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Lea Massari, Alain Berenboom, Françoise Bonnet
Cinematography
Jean Penzer
Runtime
128 min
Country
Belgium, France, Germany
Languages
French

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