What is Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay's IQ Score?

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay has an IQ Score of 169/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 44/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 36/50 Educational Value, and 48/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay educational?

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay is strong on Educational Value, 36/50 on TVI's rubric, which rates the density and integration of substantive information within the work.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay IQ Score 169/200

Name: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay
Genre: drama
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Chantal Akerman, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay has an IQ Score of 169/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-22·Methodology

drama

169/ 200

Masterclass

Exceptional cognitive and educational substance, delivered with craft that sustains close attention

Score Breakdown

Legacy score. Published under our earlier workflow, before the current standard took effect in August 2026. A founder reviewed and approved it against our methodology, under a process that does not meet the standard we hold now. What this means →

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Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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The Verdict

Best forViewers ready to let three hours of routine recalibrate what counts as a cinematic event

Skip ifReal-time potato peeling sounds like a dare; the duration is the point, not a flaw

Use it asThe purest argument that domestic labor deserves the camera's full attention

Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3.1

Formula

round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)

Database scale

2,606 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Chantal Akerman's 1975 three-hour-plus film documenting three days in the life of a Brussels widow who supports her teenage son through afternoon prostitution. The camera holds on the domestic tasks (peeling potatoes, making coffee, washing) in real time until the smallest deviation from the routine registers as catastrophe.

Sight and Sound's 2022 critics poll voted it the greatest film of all time. The formal radicalism is the argument, that the housewife's labor is the substance of cinema only when filmed at its actual duration.

People & Production Chantal Akerman · Belgium 13 connections