A 14-minute poem where the camera falls desperately, helplessly in love.
A woman as an object of poetic observation seen through the eager eye of the camera. Cinematic means are used to reflect the moods of women.
Cinematography
Every frame could hang in a gallery—lush, invasive, gorgeous.
Acting
Van Ammelrooy's silent resistance to being watched is the whole film.
Director
Anton Kothuis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This short emerged from the same Dutch experimental scene that produced Paul Verhoeven, sharing that provocative interrogation of looking and being looked at.
Willeke van Ammelrooy would become a major European star; this early role essentially typecast her as 'woman too beautiful to be fully seen'—a curse she spent decades subverting.
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