Seuls
6.8
Mental anguish is all that's present in the film Seuls / Alone (1989). Shot like a grungy medical documentary, Smolders and co-director Thierry Knauff intercut shots of several children at a Belgium psychiatric clinic. The kids are shown with forlorn expressions, twicthing their eyes, sometimes smiling, shaking, jumping, rocking their heads side to side, or smacking their heads with horrific glee against walls. It's a minimalist work that captures the intense monotony of lost and disturbed young minds, and maintains a gritty intensity.
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Olivier Smolders Director · Thierry Knauff Director
First release January 26, 1989 · Produced in Belgium · Production Les Productions du Sablier
Production
Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
Production
Les Productions du Sablier
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Belgium
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Original language
French
Release dates
Netherlands · January 26, 1989
Premiere · Source: MUBI (IFFR)
No release date listed for United States.
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