After years living in France, The grandfather of Jakob returns back too his old house. He buys the house and asks his grand-son too help renovate it. When his grandfather falls and get hurt, an older woman decides too look out on Jakob.
Acting
Annet Nieuwenhuyzen's performance walks kindness and menace perfectly.
Direction
Lagestee turns a renovation into psychological warfare.
Director
Martin Lagestee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sanne Himmelreich and Annet Nieuwenhuyzen both play characters named Neeltje—intentional doubling or casting oversight? The film never explains.
Lagestee's only feature film; he spent his career in Dutch television, which explains the cramped, small-screen dread that makes the house feel simultaneously too big and suffocating.
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