Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
IT'S ALL SO QUIET
Boven is het stil
Synopsis
Helmer is 55 and a bachelor. He tends a remote farm and looks after his ailing father. Theirs is a brittle, tight-lipped relationship. When his father moves ever closer towards the grave, Helmer shifts him upstairs…
Synopsis
Helmer is 55 and a bachelor. He tends a remote farm and looks after his ailing father. Theirs is a brittle, tight-lipped relationship. When his father moves ever closer towards the grave, Helmer shifts him upstairs…
Our take
A beautiful lead performance from the late Jeroen Willems anchors this poignant drama from Nanouk Leopold. Set on a small farm in the Flemish countryside, It’s All So Quiet is a delicately measured tale of loneliness, repression, and the brittle bonds forged between a son and his ageing father.