A 94-minute gut punch about loving someone you've barely met.
After seven months of pregnancy a husband and wife learn that their unborn child won't survive for long.
Acting
van de Ven carries impossible silence like weight.
Direction
Horst refuses catharsis, which is the point.
Director
Rita Horst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Horst's debut feature; she later pivoted to children's television, which feels like psychological self-care.
1990 Dutch cinema's 'bleak domestic realism' wave—this makes van den Berg's work look like a party.
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