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Oct 4, 1989 · American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy: Directed by Chantal Akerman. With Mark Amitin, Eszter Balint, Kirk Baltz, George Bartenieff. The stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor.
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Aug 5, 2018 · Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989) Somewhere between Woody Allen and Freud, between documentary and fiction, Histoires d’Amerique conjures up the destinies of several generations of Jewish immigrants in New York. Director: Chantal Akerman. Stars: Mark Amitin, Eszter Balint, Stephan Balint, Kirk Baltz, George ...
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (French: Histoires d'Amérique) is a 1989 Belgian drama film directed by Chantal Akerman. It was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. The film deals with Jewish identity in the center of the United States.
Synopsis. Belgian director Chantal Akerman avoids her usual “real time” technique in Histoires d’Amérique. The anecdotal nature of the subject matter compels Akerman to fragment her narrative, rather than offer it in one, uninterrupted continuum.
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The title of Chantal Akerman’s Histoires d’Amerique: Food, Family and Philosophy points at the film’s duality – a promise of conviviality, served up by an outsider. The film isn’t conventionally warm - the camera serves throughout as a fixed, direct spectator – but Akerman’s humanism prevents it from morbidity or oppressiveness.
Jan 17, 2019 · The English-language movie, shot on location in vacant lots in Brooklyn, near the Williamsburg Bridge, features first-person tales of early-twentieth-century Jewish immigrants in New York that...
Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1989 • Belgium, France. Starring George Bartenieff, Judith Malina, Eszter Balint. Chantal Akerman explores Jewish American identity in this multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience.
