Born in Brussels in 1950 and died in 2015, Akerman made her best-known film as a young woman. Her work uses long takes and strict structure to focus on time, women's daily lives and memory.
Filmography
- Hotel Monterey (1972)
- Je tu il elle (1974)
- Jeanne Dielman (1975)
- News from Home (1977)
- Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
- All Night Long (1982)
- Golden Eighties (1986)
- From the East (1993)
- The Captive (2000) (2000)
- Almayer's Folly (2011)
- No Home Movie (2015)