3 1/2 hours shot to hell

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

snooze I watched every bit of this film. Because I was certain that a spectacular pay-off awaited those who subjected themselves to the full, mind-numbingly boring three-hour-twenty-one minutes it took. Oye. Jeanne Dielman is an anally retentive widow who prostitutes herself once a day to pay for her, and her college-aged son's subsistence,  We watch her making dinner.  Actually.  Buying potatoes. Peeling potatoes. Stirring the potatoes. Serving the potatoes.  Eating the potatoes.  Before I watched it, I read somewhere that this is the 19th best film ever made. But not for everyone; only truly erudite, sensitive movie goers. That sounded like me, to me. We never see Jeanne during one of her assignations, which after all is why I bothered to begin with.  She goes into her room with the gentleman caller, and is next seen leaving, handing the client his hat,coat, muffler and umbrella, and receiving one crisp 100 note which she deposits into a terrine.  Then she scrubs her body,  and  scrubs the tub just as vigorously.  It's seems that she's trying to wash away the defilement.  Then she finishes making dinner. I think we get to see three of these cycles. Until the last guy.  Here, she lays on her bed with him on her, seemingly motionless, but bringing her to orgasm which you sense is an epiphany; one that very much upsets her. She stabs him in the heart with a scissors and gets gets dressed. Movie ends.  I couldn't figure out what the hell this was.  But now, here's what I think.  This artsy-fartsy movie was made by, and for feminists who were at the time (1975) just discovering how useless men are.  They put their thing in you, a joyless task for women,  for which the woman is rewarded with a life of endless, unfulfilled tedium. All this so he'll give you money for groceries -- to feed him.   And here comes this guy who gives her an orgasm! And that threatens her commitment to the sisterhood; to  the cause. He must be excised. Take my word for it; you don't want to watch it (on NetFlix). She's not that cute.  Her meals look bland.