A family is on summer vacation. Their adolescent son is a mixture of bored and horny. A yellow jacket wasp joins them in their car and then at their vacation campsite. A sultry young woman is doing laundry outdoors just as a brief, torrential downpour occurs and the wasp allows her to reveal, much to the young man's delight, her special knowledge of how to deal with insect bites.
Direction
Van de Mond weaponizes the mundane into cringe poetry.
Cinematography
That rain scene—every drop calculated for maximum teen anguish.
Director
Annemarie van de Mond
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Netherlands Film Festival's 2003 crop exploring Dutch suburban malaise through bodily comedy.
Rifka Lodeizen went on to win multiple Golden Calves; this early role established her specialty in women who weaponize their own objectification.
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