A pink neon lamp and a laptop screen illuminate the semi-naked blonde girl on the bed. Her name is Melon Rainbow and she’s working. During the day she has a different job, cleaning for people she has next to no contact with. A blind boy changes that. Melon Rainbow tries to help him and herself.
Cinematography
Pink neon glow that refuses to romanticize what it illuminates.
Acting
Vic Carmen Sonne's guarded vulnerability in every withheld glance.
Director
Laurits Flensted-Jensen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 2016 'New Danish Cinema' wave exploring gig economy precarity through female bodies; screened at Berlinale Shorts.
Director Flensted-Jensen cast Sonne after her breakout in 'The Girl with the Needle'—both films interrogate women's invisible labor.
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