Director
Bavo Defurne
Year
2011
Run Time
96
min
Country
Belgium
Language
Dutch
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. As a kid, Pim dreams of a better life, imagining princesses and beauty queens. But when Pim turns sixteen, he begins dreaming of Gino, the handsome boy next door, instead.
This film is presented in Dutch with English subtitles.
Set in a small town on the Belgian coast in the late 1960s and 70s, adolescent introverted dreamer Pim grows up accustomed to neglect from his selfish mother Yvette. Pim eventually finds succor at the home of Yvette’s co-worker Marcella where he heroworships her older son, Gino. Friendship grows into love when Gino, cautioning Pim to secrecy, supplies the besotted boy’s first sexual experiences. But when Gino begins a relationship with a French girl, jealous Pim focuses his wistful romantic fantasies on Zoltan, the hunky itinerant fun-fair worker who comes to board at his house. Winner: Alice in the City Award, Rome Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award and Best Feature Debut, Montreal Film Festival. (Description courtesy of Palm Spring International Film Festival.)
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