Featured Audience Ratings

• Walter M

  
  In "Je, Tu, Il, Elle," a young woman(Chantal Akerman, who also co-wrote and directed) spends her days in her tiny apartment rearranging the furniture, subsisting on a diet of sugar. She writes a letter and then reads it over and over. Time passes and eventually it is 28… More
  In "Je, Tu, Il, Elle," a young woman(Chantal Akerman, who also co-wrote and directed) spends her days in her tiny apartment rearranging the furniture, subsisting on a diet of sugar. She writes a letter and then reads it over and over. Time passes and eventually it is 28 days since she has been outside. For all we know, there could have been a zombie apocalypse in the meantime and this morose person could conceivably be the last human being left alive which is really depressing. She gets undressed, either putting on a show for the neighbors or inviting potential zombies to lunch. Eventually, she musters the energy to get dressed and leave, hitchhiking with a trucker(Niels Arestrup). Okay, as pretentious as that sounds, what follows is worse. On the other hand, it does become clear what the woman's story is. In any case, "Je, Tu, Il, Elle" is an object lesson in that just using a stationary camera and pointing it in a random direction is not filmmaking by any means. The director has to capture something of interest to the viewer, or else his mind is going to wander and he is going to be very silly when he has to write the review. Luckily, Akerman's first feature does transcend some of her inexperience as a director, winning the day by the movie's confrontational attitude and sheer nerve.

• Dimitris S

  
  Je: I am a man who wants to love a woman. Tu: as in the second person who I'm responding to,and yet nothing is quite certain or as it was supposed to be... Il: domineering,bipolar,strict,even truck-drivers get the blues! Elle: fierce,emotional,witty,the artistic,carnal… More
  Je: I am a man who wants to love a woman. Tu: as in the second person who I'm responding to,and yet nothing is quite certain or as it was supposed to be... Il: domineering,bipolar,strict,even truck-drivers get the blues! Elle: fierce,emotional,witty,the artistic,carnal fulfillment for both sexes. Result: ? Argument: "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men" Joseph Conrad