American Stories

Akerman's second major New Yorker film takes place near the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn, where she tells in both simple and gallows humor about the immigrant life of Eastern European Jews in New York. Akerman's mother miraculously survived Auschwitz, and the film is full of Jewish jokes and folklore as Akerman's tribute to his Jewish background. It's an entertaining collage of skits, monologues and anecdotes — told directly to the camera.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Starring: Mark Amitin, Eszter Balint, Stephan Balint
Country/year: Belgium, France, 1989
Running time: 95 min.
Formato: DCP
Language: English subtitles
Age limit: Allowed for children over 15
Original title: Histoires d'Amérique

Part of the series: Chantal Akerman's fictions
Chantal Akerman was one of the most form-conscious and innovative filmmakers of her generation. Her fiction films range from melodrama and musical to romantic comedy and radically concentrated chamber plays and testify to an incredible curiosity to explore the possibilities of fiction.