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| Here's a first; there apparently isn't any poster for News From Home, this cover to a DVD containing Notes From Home, among other Chantal Akerman works, will have to do. |
News From Home is not a traditional motion picture. There is no overarching narrative to be found here. It simply consists of footage of various New York City locales, which are usually captured via extended single-takes, set to audio of the film's director, Chantal Akerman, reading aloud letters that her mother has written to her. Such letters concern Chantal's mother talking to her daughter about how much she and her husband miss Chantal as well as everything that's going on back in Chantal's home of Brussels, Belgium. Babies are born, marriages are formed, tragedies strike the family, all the while the footage on-screen makes it clear that New York City keeps going along. This world is one of relentless business that waits for no human being.
