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Chicago Reader

News From Home
Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum
From the Chicago Reader

An early experimental feature by Chantal Akerman (1976, 85 min.) that juxtaposes images of New York City with the texts of letters written to Akerman by her mother in Belgium and read aloud offscreen by Akerman. This is one of the best depictions of the alienation of exile that I know.