Lockdown

How to make a virtue of necessity? Toneelgroep Maastricht and filmmaker Pieter Kuijpers set an example with this video-call film. A comic thriller in which fiction and reality painfully blend. After the theatrical thriller Zwart water, and challenged by the Covid crisis, Toneelgroep Maastricht and Pieter Kuijpers again joined forces. How can you tell stories while in lockdown? With two computers, two mobile phones and from their real houses, this satirical thriller was shot, in which the artistic leaders of TM play semi-fictitious versions of themselves. While reshaping and rehearsing a Greek tragedy, adulterous affairs come to light that threaten to result in quite a different tragedy in this video-call comedy. (Nederlands Film Festival)