A jazz pianist's midlife crisis plays like a sad song you can't stop humming.
"What are we actually doing here?" Miel asks Jack Van Poll, the pianist. "Earning a living, I suppose?" is the laconic reply. But Miel wants more out of life than playing in a jazz band, away from the worries of his wife and child who constantly need money from him. Between dream and deed... but then he is suddenly confronted with harsh reality.
Acting
Arthur Semay's quietly devastating performance as Miel.
Direction
Van Berlo's unflinching observation of ordinary desperation.
Director
Melinda Van Berlo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jack Van Poll plays a pianist named Jack — the director cast the real musician for authenticity, then gave him basically himself to play.
This aired on Belgian television in 1992, part of a wave of Flemish dramas exploring working-class masculine failure that never found international distribution.
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