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Junkhearts
Why this pick
Like North Sea Texas, it finds tenderness and fragile self-discovery amid a rough, emotionally unreliable adult world, with an intimate, unvarnished coming-of-age tone.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2011 1h 36m BEL
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A young Pim and his mother, Yvette, live in the Belgium countryside with their dog, a Miniature Pinscher named Mirza. The mother, a lonely divorcee, plays a piano accordion, and patronizes a local bar called Texas. One day Pim and his mother attend a fair, where they meet a traveling carny named Zoltan. Zoltan is kind to the younger Pim, and Pim is infatuated. Zoltan rents a room in Yvette's home intermittently, but later stops coming to town. Meanwhile, Yvette begins spending time with a man named Etienne, who is brutish and macho, and whom Pim immediately despises.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jelle Florizoone
Pim
Mathias Vergels
Gino
Eva van der Gucht
Yvette
Luk Wyns
Etienne
Katelijne Damen
Marcella