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News from Home

1977 1h 29m 7.0
Documentary
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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

Chantal Akerman

Narrator (voice)

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