At Mette’s Domestic Violence Support Centre no appropriate or safe care can be found for Miller. Mette seizes this opportunity to help, hoping to find distraction and constructiveness from her own domestic problems. She offers her spare bed to Miller, whilst being fully aware of the potential consequences and dangers of her actions.
written / directed by Esther Rots
International press
VARIETY – Rots’ intelligent, ferociously empathetic but deeply unsentimental portrait. A psychologically rich profile ( … ) A fascinating experience of cinematic dysphasia.
HIGH ON FILM – Retrospekt is a pulsating time ticking bomb, brewing with mystery and anxiety waiting to take you off guard. It’s baffling and equally thrilling.
EX BERLINER – Inventive and thought-provoking ( … ) keeping you on the edge of your seat to the end.
CINEMABLOGRAPHER – A true original ( … ) a healthy dose of WTF
STAGE AND SCREEN – A masterful and devastating collage
ICS – Rots’ talent for visceral and intelligent cinema
THE FILM STAGE – An experience like no other
CINEUROPA – Rots succeeds in creating an absurd, poetic fairy tale, which, despite being immersed in tragedy, retains a sense of humour.
listen to the soundtrack by Dan Geesin:
— white fluffy bathrobe —
— waving woman —
— go go Mette —
— toilet timpani —
RETROSPEKT (the album) has been released as a download and on pink vinyl. The download can be found at bandcamp, spotify, soundcloud and iTunes.
writer/director: Esther Rots
producers: Rots Filmwerk and Column Film
co-producer: Serendipity Films
premieres: TORONTO & BERLINALE
twitter: esther_rots
Mette: Circé Lethem
Simon: Martijn van der Veen
Miller: Lien Wildemeersch
crew:
DOP: Lennert Hillege
DOS: Dan Geesin
production: Ingeborg Gravendeel, Reinette van de Stadt
script coach: Razvan Radulescu
supported by:
Dutch Film Fund
– script development
– project development
– realisation
Netherlands Film Production Incentive
VAF, Flanders Audiovisual Fund
– realisation
De Tax Shelter van de Belgische Federale Overheid
BNP PARIBAS FORTIS Film Finance
MEDIA Programme of the European Union
– Slate Funding, project development
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