Crossing Europe

Can Go Through Skin

1 hr. 34 min. | Drama | N/A

After a brutal attack, Marike decides to leave Amsterdam and returns to her native village. As if to start all over again, the woman hopes to be able to forget the horrific experience. Coldness and loneliness bind Marika with ever stronger shackles of fear, and the desire for revenge overcomes the desire for peace. But soon she becomes more and more courageous to communicate with a sympathetic neighbor and, it seems, her heart begins to value again and is able to accept love and affection. Unfortunately, the echo of past events is too strong for Marik to forget the cruel and stabbing pain.

"All my films are based on a similar idea - a huge difference between what you know and what you feel, how we remember something. Consciousness and subconscious, reality and everyday autopilot, interpretation and facts. I find this process extremely interesting, that strange logic of the subconscious, ”said director Esther Rots.

Esther Rots

Esther Rots

Esther Rots was born in 1972 in the Netherlands. Lives in Amsterdam. He studied visual arts in Arnhem and later at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam. Two of her short films (Play with Me and I Grow Up) took part in the Cannes Film Festival's short film competition. Film “Exercise for conversation no. 1: City ”won, among other prizes, the Golden Calf for Best Short Film. "Through the Skin" is the director's feature film debut.
Languages
Dutch
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Kan door huid hee
Produced
2009: Netherlands

Film information

Director
Esther Rots
Screenplay
Esther Rots
Music
Dan Geesin
Cinematography
Lennert Hillege
Cast
Rifka Lodeizen, Wim Opbrouck, Chris Borowski, Elisabeth van Nimwegen
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