Speech read out during the funeral ceremony for Chantal Akerman at the Père Lachaise cemetery, Tuesday, 13 October, 2015 Delphine Horvilleur December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion We have gathered here to accompany Chantal Akerman to this place that in Hebrew we call bet hashayim – “the house of the living”. This name can seem paradoxical for a cemetery And yet, it is not a euphemism....