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RETROSPEKT

By Esther ROTS

Drama - Completed 2018

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2018

Berlinale - EFM 2019

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- DUTCH
- Director(s)
- Esther ROTS
- Cast
- Circé LETHEM, Lien WILDEMEERSCH, Martijn VAN DER VEEN
- Producer(s)
- Hugo ROTS (Rots Filmwerk), Esther ROTS (Rots Filmwerk), Gijs VAN DE WESTELAKEN (Column Film), Chantal VAN DER HORST (Column Film), Ellen DE WAELE (Serendipity Films)
- Synopsis
- Mette (40) is in the final phase of her rehabilitation, when one day Miller (32) pays a visit, trying to get Mette to testify against 'Frank', Miller’s boyfriend who apparently put Mette in a wheelchair. Mette can’t seem to remember anything. Then, left alone and in a haze of pain, medication, and increasing anxiety, Mette has time to reminisce. Sitting at home on maternity leave, Mette is struck by the increasing absence of satisfaction that she once felt from her organized life. Both her family and job as a Domestic Violence councilor no longer provide her with a sense of purpose. When her husband Simon is away on a business trip, Mette learns that a former client of hers (Miller) is in trouble. On a whim and hoping to resolve her own emptiness, Mette ceases the opportunity to do something 'meaningful' and invites Miller into her home, fully aware of the potential consequences. Retrospect is life’s sense of humor or proof we are all living a fairy tale; it is easy to make sense of ‘it’ all in hindsight, but the chaos of everyday life blurs one’s vision at the time the decisions are made.