My mother laughs kommer til udtryk i Persiens

kommer til udtryk i Persiens ”overmenneskelige” størrelse og mærkelighed

Som vandet i en vase

Dette er startskuddet til et år

regnes for forfatterindens største mesterværk - og genudgives verden over

i en verden præget misforståelser

My mother laughs kommer til udtryk i PersiensIn 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to Brussels to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life,