Becoming Mona

Tragicomic adaptation of Griet Op de Beeck’s eponymous, successful novel. By trial and error, Mona works her way through life, marked by her mother’s untimely death. Mona is the eldest daughter in a family whose mother passes away at a young age. Kom hier dat ik u kus shows how Mona threads her way through life as a child, a twenty- and a thirty-something. While everyone bullies her, she tries to keep her footing in a world full of ego trippers and self-seekers. Until she realises this can’t go on. Tragicomic family drama, based on Griet Op de Beeck’s eponymous novel. (Nederlands Film Festival)