Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Wonderfully shot film about the special relationship between two outsiders: an opium-addicted sailor and a precocious, 10-year-old Chinese girl.
95'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
'Scenes from a farewell' would be a suitable subtitle for this remarkable first feature film by Marion Hänsel, after the book by Dominique Rolin. She shifted the location from Paris to Antwerp, the city she was living in at the time and which we see in Il était un petit navire. Eva is keeping her dying spouse company on a houseboat on the Schelde river. His ex is also present for these last 24 hours in the no-man's land between life that goes on and unavoidable death.
Hänsel depicts the tense situation from Eva's perspective in a sober, yet aptly composed form, supported by calm, stylish camerawork. Full of intense emotions vying for primacy: the power of love alongside pain, desires, guilt and impending loneliness. A poetic meditation consisting of relatively independent scenes interlarded with memories of past happiness. Awarded the Belgian film critics' prize.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
In response to her recent autobiographical film, this retrospective completes the portrait of a singular voice in filmmaking, writing, producing and acting.
Read more about this programmeWonderfully shot film about the special relationship between two outsiders: an opium-addicted sailor and a precocious, 10-year-old Chinese girl.
95'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
Portrait of Belgian art collector Herman Daled, who sold his collection of conceptual works to the MoMa in 2011.
93'
Belgium
IFFR 2020
Powerfully depicted study of loneliness, love and power on a South African farm. Jane Birkin in one of her best roles.
88'
Belgium
IFFR 2020