Blu-ray, DVD Release: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Digital Release Date: May 9, 2017, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 9, 2017
Price: DVD $22.99, Blu-ray $26.19
Studio: Criterion

Considered to be one of the great works by France’s Chantal Akerman, the 1975 drama Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow (Delphine Seyrig, Muriel, or The Time of Return) – whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick.

Delphine Seyrig is Jeanne Dielman in Chantal Akerman’s 1975 drama.

In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world.

Whether seen as an exacting character study or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.

Presented in French with English subtitles Criterion’s DVD and Blu-ray edition contain the following:

* New 2K digital restoration undertaken by the Royal Belgian Film Archive, supervised by director of photography Babette Mangolte, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
*Autour de “Jeanne Dielman,” a 69-minute documentary-shot by actor Sami Frey and edited by Agnes Ravez and director Chantal Akerman-made during the filming of Jeanne Dielman
* Interviews from 2009 with Akerman and Mangolte
* Excerpt from “Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman,” a 1997 episode of the French television program Cinéma de notre temps
* Interview from 2007 with Akerman’s mother, Natalia
* Excerpt from a 1976 television interview featuring Akerman and actor Delphine Seyrig
* Saute ma ville (1968), Akerman’s first film, with an introduction by the director
* A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ivone Margulies