At 26, Morgane still lives with her mother. She has not yet completed her studies, and her love life doesn't get beyond one-night stands. She evidently doesn't know how to get things done - in Brussels slang, she'd be called a "klette". Or is she just struggling with the pursuit of the socially-imposed course of life, like so many young adults?
Acting
Heylen's unflinching vulnerability — you can't look away.
Direction
Abay squeezes a whole coming-of-age into 17 minutes.
Director
Michael Abay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
'Klette' is pure Brussels slang — untranslatable, slightly derogatory, affectionately brutal. The film weaponizes local specificity into universal cringe.
Director Michael Abay expanded this from his own graduation short, mining his social circle of 'functioning disasters' in their late twenties. The cramped apartment is his friend's actual flat.
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