Saute ma ville

Chantal Akerman’s plays a manic heroine in her early, incendiary critique of domesticity and conformity.

Chantal Akerman’s debut is an incendiary critique of domesticity and conformity, the title of which translates as Blow up My Town. Playing a Chaplinesque young woman, Akerman shuts herself away in a small kitchen where she goes about various chores such as cleaning, mopping and polishing her shoes in an increasingly erratic fashion, before descending into mania and ending it all with a gas hob.