Hemel (film)
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| German title | Hemel |
| Original title | Hemel |
| Country of production | Netherlands |
| original language | Dutch |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sacha Polak |
| script | Eva Duijvestein , Helena van der Meulen |
| music | Axel Skovdal Roelofs |
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Hemel is a 2012 Dutch feature film directed by Sacha Polak . Helena van der Meulen wrote the script .
content
Hemel (German sky) is a young woman who always has sex with a different man. To the disappointment of some men, she doesn't like sequelae. After a man tells her that he doesn't find pubic hair attractive in a woman, she lets him shave her pubic hair. Once she meets a man in a church who unexpectedly tightens her neck while having sex without her consent. She thinks it's terrifying. She falls in love with a man, Douwe, but that is nothing long because he is married and their relationship does not continue.
She goes to a party of her stepbrother Teun and criticizes his fiancée because she does not want to have sex before marriage for religious reasons .
She grew up with her father Gijs, her mother died young. Hemel and Gijs have a strong and intimate bond. Gijs has changing, often young, girlfriends. Hemel finds it threatening her relationship with Gijs when he finds a boyfriend, Sophie, with whom he wants to move in.
criticism
"Excellent debut drama about a young, attractive and yet lonely woman with a father complex looking for the difference between love and sex."
"Polak's" Hemel "has nothing of Charlotte Roches and David Wnendt's" wetlands "apart from the sex-sells aspect of the self-confident, promiscuous girl. Where Roches Helen is still beaming pretty, you can see Hemel's agony. "
"Sacha Polak's" Hemel "is a film in fragments which, as clearly separated chapters, have beautiful, poetic headings. These are: "Genital phase", "Mohammed", "Father and daughter", "Where God lives", "You make me a person", "In love", "Sevilliana" and "Normal tea". In these associative titles lies the promise of a story that resonates in the static excerpts without being told. "
Awards
- Dutch Film Festival 2012 : best actress Hannah Hoekstra
- Berlin International Film Festival 2012 : FIPRESCI Prize
Others
- The film was translated into Russian and screened at the Vologda Film Festival (translator: Andrey Efremov).
Web links
- Hemel in Internet Movie Database (English)
- official website