Two films about two women that literally haunted the directors who made them. From “No Home Movie”, Chantal Akerman’s swansong about her mother, to the mysterious life and times of a 95-year-old femme fatale in “A Family Affair”, Exile Room dedicates the month of October to life-changing relationships.
Chantal Akerman’s last movie, her swan song that premiered shortly before her suicide, in October 2015, is a touching portrait of her mother, Natalia, an Auschwitz survivor who suffered from chronic anxiety and rarely ever left her apartment
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“Marianne Hertz: Model and Perfect Mother.” This is how filmmaker Tom Fassaert’s grandmother was presented in a 1950s magazine. The truth was far away from that.
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