# News from Home (1976)

> A Belgian filmmaker’s distant city portrait turns her mother’s letters into a quietly unsettling meditation on exile, attachment, and urban solitude.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/61838

## Facts

- Runtime: 89 min
- Genres: Documentary
- Director: Chantal Akerman
- Cast: Chantal Akerman
- TMDB rating: 7.1/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076452/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: glacial
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Mood: melancholic, austere, intimate, quiet evening, arthouse cinema night

## Synopsis

A poignant exploration of distance, love, and the passage of time through the lens of a daughter in New York and her mother in Brussels.

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