Belgian Jewish filmmaker's film voted greatest of all time by British critics

A radical feminist film directed by the Belgian Jewish filmmaker Chantal Akerman has been named “the greatest film of all time” by British critics.

It is the first time a woman has won the accolade in the 70-year survey which is held every decade by the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai due Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is an experimental work released in 1975.

It offers “a feminist perspective on the stifling and frustratingly recurrent aspects of everyday life,” Sight and Sound said.