This filmmaker finds a way to craft a brilliantly intimate film that lingers with you long after your first watch.
Sundance is a breeding ground for emotionally stunning films like Veerle Baetens’s When It Melts. The story, which premiered in the festival’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, is not unfamiliar, yet showcases a tenderness that many directors struggle to find in their projects, let alone their directorial debuts.
Baetens’ film is an achievement on many levels of indie filmmaking. As her story defies the usual rules of dual-timeline films, which is that one period is often more interesting than the other, and navigates the awkwardness of intimacy in puberty, Baetens never loses focus of her film’s thesis.
Author: Alyssa Miller
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