Completed - DUTCH - Comedy, First film, Art - Culture - 93 minutes
In the black comedy If Yes, Okay, little is considered sacred, any outcome is possible and nothing is as it seems.
Year of production : 2023 Director(s) : Dick VERDULT Writer(s) : Dick VERDULT, Maria VAN HEESWIJK Cast : Lola KOPPEN, Peter FENGLER, Ekaterina LEVENTAL, Harun BAHASOEAN, Tim TEUNISSEN, Katrien Van BEURDEN Producer(s) : René GOOSSENS (DE PRODUCTIE), Annemiek van GORP (De Productie)
Life in the household of teenager Amy is somewhat rarefied. She is the spoiled daughter of a billionaire magnate and an opera-singer mother, and she is both bored and frustrated. The atmosphere within her luscious family pad is little other than stultifyingly claustrophobic.Luckily, she also has a keen imagination and a desire to create art out of her circumstances. What’s more, she has as much cash as she needs to make manifest her creative impulses, all of which derive from her immediate and constricted home life, and a disdain for parents she would as happily see dead. As we are told at the beginning of the film, the smaller the cage, the better the singing.So Amy enlists the services of a director and a troupe of performers to recreate, in Kabuki style, the strange ongoings within the household, a process which, satisfyingly and with great panache, ends in death and tragedy. In a coda sequence we encounter a faraway land, a place where there is no claustrophobia and where happiness is defined by the elements, clean air, mud, water… and laughter.
Country(ies) : NETHERLANDS
Rotterdam IFFR 2023 (Harbour)