My mother laughs hvordan Janssons liv og kunst

hvordan Janssons liv og kunst er tæt forbundne med hinanden – for eksempel hvordan Mumidalen og dens beboere opstod under anden verdenskrig

I teksterne reflekterer Clarice Lispector over det smertefulde

Og som tager vejret fra Cleo

Giv frø i gave i stedet for blomster

My mother laughs hvordan Janssons liv og kunstIn 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to Brussels to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life,