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By Halina REIJN

Thriller - Completed 2019

Nicoline, an experienced psychologist working in a penal institution, starts an affair with a serial rapist who appears to be ready to return to society.
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Locarno 2019

Piazza Grande - Winner Variety Piazza Grande Award

Toronto - TIFF 2019

Contemporary World Cinema

BFI London FF 2019

First Feature Competition

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- DUTCH
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Halina REIJN
- Writer(s)
- Esther GERRITSEN, Halina REIJN
- Cast
- Carice VAN HOUTEN, Marwan KENZARI
- Producer(s)
- Frans VAN GESTEL (TOPKAPI FILMS), Laurette SCHILLINGS (TOPKAPI FILMS), Arnold HESLENFELD (TOPKAPI FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Nicoline, an experienced psychologist, starts a new job at a penal institution. She meets Idris, a sex offender who committed a series of grave crimes. After five years of treatment, he is about to go on his first unaccompanied probation. His team of practitioners are enthusiastic about his development but newcomer Nicoline does not trust him and tries to push his probation. Idris tries his hardest to convince Nicoline of his good intentions, but slowly but surely, he transforms into the manipulative man she saw in him from the beginning. A power play emerges between the two and Nicoline, in spite of her knowledge and experience, lets herself be trapped completely.
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