Is Jeanne Dielman on the wrong BFI Sight & Sound list?

From YouTube - “"IndieSeen" closes out 2022 by planting seeds for Kicking the Seat's next decade!

"Sight and Sound" (the magazine of the British Film Institute) recently released its ranking of "The Greatest Films of All Time", and the controversial boosting of Chantal Akerman's JEANNE DIELMAN, 23. QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES from #36 to #1 set FIlm Twitter ablaze.

The 1975 drama centers on three days in the life of a single mother (Delphine Seyrig). She cleans her apartment, makes coffee, takes care of her teenage son, and pays the bills by sleeping with a succession of distant, skeevy men. Does this experiment in slow cinema deserve a place among the likes of CITIZEN KANE, VERTIGO, and TOKYO STORY? The guys' initial answers won't surprise you, but the episode-long evolution of one particularly harsh opinion just might.

Ian and Sujewa talk about the poll, the film, the Twitter drama, and Ian's plans to discuss every film on the BFI list until the next edition comes out in 2032!”

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