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A daughter films her Holocaust survivor mother in her Brussels apartment, sharing memories and love.
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Chantal Akerman films her mother, an old woman of Polish origin who is short lifetime, in her apartment in Brussels. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, sometimes accompanied by Sylvaine, Chantal's sister.
"Replace 'Não é um Filme Caseiro' with 'No Home Movie'. Filmed just months before her mother's death - a Holocaust survivor - 'No Home Movie' is also the last film of the great Chantal Akerman ('Jeanne Dielman'). Faithful to her previous filmography, this movie also manages to combine the dramatic with the mundane in a documentary, in an intimate and sensitive way. A work of art as personal as it is universal, the movie captures some of Chantal and her mother's last moments, talking and exchanging memories, endowed with flashes of love and the pain of uprooting from immigration. The movie is a genuine fragment of their relationship, and it is very meaningful as her last film, as it immortalizes her relationship with her mother, who would pass away shortly after."