Lacks the urgency and depth of "Drive my Car", which I considered a masterpiece, whereas I thought in advance this one might well equate its precursor ("Wheel" premiered in Berlin before "Drive" did in Cannes, but the Dutch release of "Wheel" is quite late). At times the banality of the dialogues and the lack of conviction on behalf of the actors is the issue at stake, especially because you can see the (longer) interactions have been (over-?)rehearsed and recorded within…
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Nowhere Special 2020
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Hoe vertel je je kind dat je terminaal ziek bent? Een brok in de keel is waarschijnlijk bij Nowhere Special, een beheerst, ingetogen drama over de relatie tussen een alleenstaande vader en zijn vierjarige zoontje.
“Mama moest gaan, heel ver weg.” Het zijn de gebruikelijke eufemismen van verleden leed, verteld van ouder op kind om de klap van een blijvend verlies te verzachten. In Nowhere Special is de moeder van Michael (kindacteur Daniel Lamont in zijn eerste rol) dan…
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