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Boven is het stil
- Runtime:
- 94 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2013
- Country:
- Niederlande
- Director:
- Cast:
- Jeroen Willems
Henri Garcin
Wim Opbrouck
Martijn Lakemeier - Production Company:
- Circe Films
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
Helmer is 55 and a bachelor. He tends a remote farm and looks after his ailing father.Theirs is a brittle, tight-lipped relationship. When his father moves ever clother towards the grave, Helmer shifts him upstairs. He then clears out all the junk from the ground floor, throws the house plants on the dung heap, orders a new bed, and begins to live a life of his own. From time to time, Ada from the neighbouring farm drops in with her sons, and the milk truck driver regularly seeks Helmer’s company – but Helmer with draws into his own world. He paints his late brother’s room and moves in Henk, an eighteen-year-old farmhand. These steps are all undertaken to make a stand against his father. But his father’s unfulfilled expectations continue to hinder Helmer’s emotional well-being. Henk, however, responds to Helmer’s clouded feelings with fond openness. And the milk truck driver can’t seem to forget Helmer either.In her latest film, Nanouk Leopold weaves soberly observational but impressive images into a persistently quiet atmosphere that illuminates her protagonist’semotional world and his breakthrough into a new self-confidence.
BIOGRAFIE Nanouk Leopold
Born in Rotterdam in Holland in 1968, she studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam and the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam. She worked as a director in Dutch television before making her feature film debut with ÎLES FLOTTANTES. Her film BROWNIAN MOVEMENT screened in the Berlinale‘s Forum section in 2011.
FILMOGRAFIE Nanouk Leopold (selection)
2013 Boven is het stil
2010 BROWNIAN MOVEMENT
2007 WOLFSBERGEN
2005 GUERNSEY
2000 ÎLES FLOTTANTES