Focus on Dutch Cinema

Brownian Movement

1 hr. 37 min. | N/A

- Esu čia, dabar, su tavimi. Ko dar gali reikėti?

At the hospital where she works, Charlotte selects male patients to have sex with in an apartment she has rented in town. The secret moments she spends with a variety of men – corpulent, hairy, elderly – give Charlotte a fulfilment she cannot find in her one-child marriage with Max. When Max finds out what Charlotte has been up to, she is forced to go to therapy and to stop working as a doctor. The couple starts a new life. But nothing prevents Charlotte from longing for the past, when she gave free reign to her passions. “Belle de Jour [Luis Bunuel, 1967] was one of my inspirations for making this film. I saw it when I was sixteen. It is about a woman and her sexuality. Catherine Deneuve wakes up on the bed and has this very fulfilled look on her face, and tells the maid, “You have no idea”. That was an eye-opener for me, that a woman can say that. I don’t like the idea of telling you what to understand in my films. But I would like you to decide what you see, what happens and what is important,” says Nanouk Leopold.

Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold was born on July 25, 1968 in Rotterdam. She studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy and at the Rotterdam Academy of Visual Arts. At the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, she received the Tuschinski Award for her graduation film, Weekend (1998). In 2001 she took part in “No More Heroes”, a programme for debuting filmmakers whose projects focused on individuals consciously turning away from society, which allowed her to make her first feature film, Floating Islands. It was selected for the Tiger Awards of the Rotterdam Film Festival. Her long-awaited follow-up came in 2005 when she made Guernsey, which won her two awards at the Netherlands Film Festival and got her selected for Une Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in the Cannes Film Festival. Her debut and three subsequent films (Guernsey, Wolfsbergen and Brownian Movement) form a women’s tetralogy that focuses on interpersonal relations and the loneliness of the crowd.
Produced
2011: Netherlands, Germany, Belgium

Film information

Director
Nanouk Leopold
Screenplay
Nanouk Leopold
Music
Harry de Wit
Cinematography
Frank van den Eeden
Cast
Sandra Hüller, Dragan Bakema, Sabine Timoteo
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