And there were other girls who were odd ones too and that was how it was. We loved each other and that was that. I was 18 in May 1968 and it seemed as though my style was becoming popular and that everything was going back to normal, if I dare use the word because I really don’t like the word normal. I prefer the word abnormal but only just, because in the word abnormal you can still hear the word normal and that’s a word I really don't want to hear. In 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, she placed stills from her films. My Mother Laughs is both the distillation of the themes Akerman pursued throughout her creative life, and a version of the simplest and most complicated love story of all: that between a mother and a daughter. 也有其他一些女孩很古怪，事實就是如此。我們彼此相愛，僅此而已。 1968 年 5 月，我 18 歲，我的風格似乎流行起來，一切恢復正常; 如果我敢用這個詞的話，因為我真的不喜歡「正常」這個詞。我偏好「不正常」這個詞，但只是因為在「不正常」這個詞中你仍然含有「正常」這個詞，而這個詞我真的不想聽到。 2013 年，電影製作人Chantal Akerman的母親垂死。她從紐約飛回布魯塞爾照顧她，並為她穿衣服、餵她吃飯和哄她睡覺, 也會寫作。她寫了她的童年，她母親逃離奧斯維辛卻沒有詳細談論的故事; 愛她女朋友 C. 的困難; 以及她對母親死後自己會做什麼的恐懼。在這些關於她的生活的不完美的完美片段中，她展示了她電影中的劇照。 My Mother Laugh既是Akerman在創作生涯中所追求的主題的昇華，也是最簡單和最複雜的愛情故事的一個版本：母親和女兒之間的愛的故事。