Directed by:
Nanouk LeopoldScreenplay:
Nanouk LeopoldCinematography:
Richard Van OosterhoutComposer:
Loek DikkerCast:
Piet Kamerman, Catherine ten Bruggencate, Jan Decleir, Tamar van den Dop, Karina Smulders, Fedja van Huêt, Merel van Houts, Carmen Lith, Oscar van Woensel (more)Plots(1)
Three sisters feeling the stagnation of their lives. Their helpless husbands and the children, frightened by their parents' arguing. And then the farewell letter from the father, in which he writes that he will take his own life.
It is the calm that captivates the spectator. The calm of the camera, the editing, the way the director watches. With her tableau-like images, Nanouk Leopold first sets up a framework for her shattered, wounded figures, a framework in which they might be able to find their way back to themselves and then perhaps to each other. In front of her unflinching camera the characters' tension can melt away, bit by bit. Once, for example, the oldest sister is looking at herself in the mirror. Looking at the traces that life has left on her, she suddenly seems to make her peace with aging. Even if the film tells a family drama, the tone of voice is never pessimistic, the shots always seem to find a way out. Time and again, one space leads to the next, time and again light from a window falls on one of the figures.
(Berlinale)
Cast
Piet Kamerman
Netherlands
Best movies:
Wolfsbergen (2007)
Catherine ten Bruggencate
Netherlands
Best movies:
Antonia's Line (1995)
Wolfsbergen (2007)
Jan Decleir
Belgium
Best movies:
Antonia's Line (1995)
Character (1997)
Blind (2007)
Tamar van den Dop
Netherlands
Best movies:
Character (1997)
Cobain (2018)
Brush with Fate (2003) (TV movie)
Karina Smulders
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sum of Histories (2015)
Ober (2006)
Speak No Evil (2022)
Fedja van Huêt
Netherlands
Best movies:
Character (1997)
The Delivery (1999)
Accused (2014)
Merel van Houts
Best movies:
Black Book (2006)
Wolfsbergen (2007)
Carmen Lith
Best movies:
Wolfsbergen (2007)
Oscar van Woensel
Netherlands
Best movies:
Cobain (2018)
Wolfsbergen (2007)
Martijn Nieuwerf
Netherlands
Best movies:
Sonny Boy (2011)
Van Der Valk (2020) (series)
Sturm (2009)
Eva Damen
Netherlands
Best movies:
Bro's Before Ho's (2013)
Wolfsbergen (2007)
Guernsey (2005)
Rick Paul van Mulligen
Netherlands
Best movies:
Wolfsbergen (2007)
Alain Van Goethem
Belgium
Best movies:
Don’t Shoot (2018)
Victoria & Albert (2001) (TV movie)
Dennis P. (2007)
Betty Schuurman
Netherlands
Truus Dekker
Netherlands
Best movies:
A Girl Called Katy Tippel (1975)
The Sensualist (1973)
Soldier of Orange (1977)