'Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles'

This is three hours of a housemom shopping, cooking, cleaning, eating, reading letters, running errands and caring for her son. Even her hosting johns in a tidily-run prostitution ring is mundane has hell.

It's three hours, but it's good film watching. It's directed for Chantal Akerman, a Belgian filmmaker, who 25 yeras later would make one of the most boring films I'd ever seen, "The Captive."

"Jeanne Dielman" doesn't have near the dialogue or actual movement and yet it's 100 times more watchable and intriguing.

At the end of three hours, the major action takes place, a swift plunge of scissors into the carotid artery. Although there'd been 199 minutes of nothing, you feel the intensity leading up to the murder and you just knew something was going to happen.