Watch Portrait of a Lazy Woman (1986) Online

Akerman's contribution to the anthology film Seven Women, Seven Sins (which also features shorts by the formidable Helke Sander, Bette Gordon, and Valie Export) is an amusing portrait of the director trying to overcome her own laziness (i.e., to get out of her bed by noon) in order to make her film about sloth, all while her partner Sonia Wieder-Atherton is hard at work. (The scenario produces Akerman's oft-quoted line, "In order to make cinema, one must get out of bed.") Read More

Watch Portrait of a Lazy Woman online. Featuring Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Portrait of a Lazy Woman is classified as Comedy and Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6. It is available for streaming online in the USA The movie was filmed in France and was released on 1986. Portrait of a Lazy Woman was directed by Chantal Akerman. Read Less