Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay , IQ Score 169/200
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay has an IQ Score of 169/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Chantal Akerman's 1975 three-hour-plus film documenting three days in the life of a Brussels widow who supports her teenage son through afternoon prostitution. The camera holds on the domestic tasks (peeling potatoes, making coffee, washing) in real time until the smallest deviation from the routine registers as catastrophe.
Sight and Sound's 2022 critics poll voted it the greatest film of all time. The formal radicalism is the argument, that the housewife's labor is the substance of cinema only when filmed at its actual duration.
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay scored 169/200 (Masterclass tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/jeanne-dielman-23-commerce-quay/
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