Belgian director/screenwriter Bert Scholiers jumps all over the place in his imaginative feature debut. One moment we are in an Antwerp pub, the next we are walking across an expanse of snow, then in a cosmic black hole or chasing a flying pineapple. This is how best friends Charlie and Hannah’s drink-fuelled night pans out after swallowing a magical sweet that changes the world surrealistically – also for everyone around them.
The laconic twenty-somethings respond to these events with amused amazement (whether they wind up in a pre-war brothel or are blown to smithereens by an atom bomb), all the while sauntering along and discussing the really important stuff: dealing with exes and relationships. Like a tripping Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach, Scholiers plays with form, using inventive visual humour, colour and black-and-white, switching aspect ratios and referring to silent movies and Italian giallo horror.
Film details
Country of production
Belgium
Year
2017
Festival edition
IFFR 2018
Length
76'
Medium/Format
DCP
Language
Dutch, Italian
Premiere status
None
Director
Bert Scholiers
Producer
Tomas Leyers
Screenplay
Bert Scholiers
Editing
Nico Leunen, Thomas Pooters
Production company
Minds Meet
Sales / World rights holder
Minds Meet
Distributor NL / Benelux rights holder
Windmill Film
Cinematography
Hans Bruch Jr.
Music
Chrisnanne Wiegel
Principal cast
Daphne Wellens, Evelien Bosmans, Patrick Vervueren, Frances Lefebure, Steef de Bot, Sigrid ten Napel, Jeroen Van Dyck