Evokes a sense of impending doom, the daily domestic routine of a middle-aged widow. Her chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Her life is beginning to break down.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975. Special features: Disc 1. Restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Chantal Akerman. Disc 2. "Autour de Jeanne Dielman:" a 69-minute documentary shot by actor Sami Frey and edited by Agnes Ravez and Akerman, made during the filming; "Chantal Akerman : on Jeanne Dielman" interview with Chantal Akerman; "Chantal Akerman on filmmaking" exerpted from a 1997 episode of the French television program Cinéma de notre temps; "Chantal Akerman and Delphine Seyrig" segment from the 1976 French television program Les rendez-vous du dimanche where Akerman and Seyrig discuss their work on Jeanne Dielman; "Babette Mangolte" interview with cinematographer Babette Mangolte; "Natalia Akerman" interview with Chantal Akerman's mother; "Saute ma ville" short film directed by and starring Chantal Akerman. Booklet: "A matter of time" by film scholar Ivone Marguilies.