Boven is het stil

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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.

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  • Runtime

    94 min
  • Country

    Netherlands
  • Year of Presentation

    2013
  • Year of Production

    2013
  • Director

    Nanouk Leopold
  • Cast

    Jeroen Willems, Henri Garcin, Wim Opbrouck, Martijn Lakemeier
  • Production Company

    Circe Films
  • Berlinale Section

    Panorama
  • Berlinale Category

Biography 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.

Filmography Nanouk Leopold

2000 ÎLES FLOTTANTES | 2005 GUERNSEY | 2007 WOLFSBERGEN | 2010 BROWNIAN MOVEMENT