Akerman brings to world cinema a level of sensitivity & perception that surpasses the best of men (Rohmer, Bergman, Antonioni, Bresson). Les Rendez-vous d'Anna is at once warm and detached, familiar yet strange, funny but serious. It's a film where the personal intersects with the historical; the sexual with the political; and the particular with the universal. Ackerman dissects, deconstructs, and redefines the elements of cinema that JLG never managed to do.
The nearly-seven-minute single take in the first act is stunning, but eventually the film unravels into a claustrophobic+survival horror whose plot is boosted solely by the characters' undisciplined behaviour and stupidity. It makes you wonder how people so dumb can get selected.