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Father and Daughter

Michael Dudok de Wit

The Netherlands, UK2000 9min 35mm color

Synopsis

A child coming to the sea on a bicycle parts with her father. The child waits for her father at the windy seaside like a little bird. Meanwhile the changes of the season carry her life, and man and nature changes time. One day when the sea has all dried up an old lady becomes the little girl and meets again with her father in her dream. The art style that reminds us of 17th Century Dutch landscape painting is impressive. There are no specific descriptions of the characters, nor a dramatic plot or an exciting theme, but with only the faraway silhouettes of the characters in the quiet and retrospective scene, it captures the character's inner essence, life, unity of nature and human, and relationships between the characters. (KIM So-hee)

Diretor

Michael Dudok de Wit