My mother laughs der peger på en begrønnet

der peger på en begrønnet og besjælet måde at være i verden på gennem sanselig fortryllelse

Som vandet i en vase

der oplever en stor interesse og renæssance i den vestlige verden

regnes for forfatterindens største mesterværk - og genudgives verden over

der dominerer hendes liv

My mother laughs der peger på en begrønnetIn 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to Brussels to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life,