#1 in the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022.
A widowed single mother, Jeanne Dielman's (Delphine Seyrig) everyday life is structured by routine domestic chores: cleaning, scrubbing, ironing, peeling, folding. But Dielman is also a sex worker who hosts a client in the late afternoon of each day – and after one of those visits goes wrong, Jeanne’s structured lifestyle begins to unravel.