When your psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist, who's really in the chair?
Charles Dujardin - psychiatrist - starts losing his precious sense of control when Lotte, a seductive and promiscuous client offers her confession. Her story takes hold of his mind. After his ailing wife is sped off to the hospital Charles grows obsessed with Lotte. Reality and fantasy start mixing. An ethical commission starts asking difficult questions. There's been a complaint. An official investigation is started. But he didn't do anything wrong. Did he?
Acting
Michaël Pas's clammy desperation as control slips
Direction
Brekelmans traps you in Charles's crumbling subjectivity
Editing
Reality/fantasy cuts that leave you uncertain what you saw
Director
Rudi Brekelmans
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belgian cinema's fascination with bourgeois professionals in moral freefall continues Brekelmans's exploration of Flemish middle-class anxiety.
The 49-minute runtime was deliberate—Brekelmans wanted the discomfort of a feature with the punch of an episode, originally developed for a streaming anthology that collapsed.
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