Lukas Dhont

Lukas Dhont Instagram – “Since I’ve watched ‘Girl’ yesterday night I cannot stop thinking about Lara as a contemporary Jeanne Dielman. As much as Akerman was obsessively showing Jeanne’s routines as a way to reveal the invisible cages of the life of a widowed woman in the early 70s, Dhont uncovers the tensions that surround the everyday life and spaces of whom, as a transgender person, doesn’t have a given role to play, and context to inhabit, in their everyday life. The beautiful sequences of the ballet training leave you exhausted through the empathy one may feel for a body that strives to find its shape. A form that can disappear, disguised in the repetition of the other bodies, rather than standing out as the exception. It’s perhaps the first time that I visually encounter such feelings expressed with such beauty and clarity. The use of scissors towards the end got me thinking that the parallelism with Jeanne is voluntarily there.” @lucchettimatteo 🙏🏻 Chantal Akerman 🙏🏻 | Posted on 05/Dec/2018 20:03:53