Belgium-Netherlands-Hungary-Germany
2009/35mm/109mins – AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 6.30 PM – Dendy
An intensely reflective and subtly moving film about a couple and their young child living in a desolate construction zone.
Bettina and Marcus are a passionate couple living in a canteen in a vast field of endless lines of pylons. Marcus is trying to set up his own business and Bettina – bored and longing for a better life – carelessly runs the canteen. Their strangely aloof daughter Tessa skips school to wander the vast site collecting found objects. When Marcus hires a Hungarian engineer to help out, the newcomer’s more focused approach to life causes Bettina to question what is missing from her own existence. Director Caroline Strubbe has been influenced by the films of Wim Wenders and Michelangelo Antonioni, and the gently meandering pace, beautiful cinematography and highly naturalistic performances make for a intense and moody piece of drama.
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Cannes Film Festival Critics Week French Writers Guild Screenwriting Award
“Echoes of PARIS, TEXAS (1984) and FIVE EASY PIECES (1970)” Allen Hunter, SCREEN DAILY
“A brutal exploration of the adversity that reigns in the world of disadvantaged workers, those invisible people on the edge of society.” Fabien Lemercier, CINEUROPA
Writer & Director Caroline Strubbe Producer Thomas Leyers Cast Sam Louwyck, Lisbeth Gruwez, Zoltan Miklos Hajdu Print Source Umedia Montreuil France
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I read it, but think that doesn’t work that way…