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No Home Movie, the final work from the great Belgian director Chantal Akerman, depicts her mother’s last months on earth. There’s no melodrama, because that wasn’t Akerman’s way, but rather a dispassionate depiction of a genial octogenarian going about her day-to-day routine. In that sense, it evokes memories of Akerman’s landmark 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, in which Delphine Seyrig’s housewife goes about her day-to-day routine (the two kitchens even feature similar shiny-tiled walls)…