Meisje

Three interwoven portraits of women at significant moments in their lives. Each age and each situation asks for a new interpretation of love and for a new relationship with one’s own body.Muriel (20) leaves her parental home in a small provincial town to move into a bedsit in Brussels. Her landlady Laura is a free spirit with an messy love life. Laura is about to leave her young lover Oscar, because he doesn’t want to help her have children. When the relationship comes to an end, Muriel starts something with Oscar. Muriel sees Laura as an example, but finds out that she has to live her own life instead of imitating that of someone else. Martha, Muriel’s mother, also embarks on a new phase in her life. She slowly starts to see herself as a woman again, instead of only as the ‘mother of’.The fascination of Dorothée van den Berghe for the phenomenon of family emerges from her own childhood spent in an Amsterdam hippy commune where love affairs often only lasted for a brief period. Only after she had moved to Belgium with her mother did she discover the existence of long-term relationships. So in Girl, a relationship between a mother and a daughter forms an important element.In the excellent cast, alongside the old hand Dottermans as Laura, the young dancer Charlotte van den Eynde making her début as an actress is especially striking.