A story about the 14 year old Heleen who makes the transition of child to adult with pain and effort in the wild 70s. While her parents going to divorce she is exploring the world of sex, drugs and love on her own.
Acting
Melody Klaver's debut carries the whole fragile, furious film.
Production
Authentic 70s Dutch interiors that feel lived-in, not costume-y.
Director
Simone van Dusseldorp
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Melody Klaver was actually 14 during filming, making several scenes legally contentious and rarely screened internationally.
Director Simone van Dusseldorp based Heleen's sexual exploration on research into 1970s Dutch teen magazines—this wasn't nostalgic fantasy, it was archival reconstruction of real adolescent behavior that cinema usually sanitizes.
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