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Forbidden Zone

S.

Guido Hendericks

Belgium1998 84min 35mm Color

Synopsis

S. and her boyfriend are Europeans living in New York. Her boyfriend doesn't give a damn about her. When he makes love with his former lover in front of her, S. kills them both and flees to Europe.Once their, S. works in a peepshow and becomes the lover of Marie. S. is perhaps sensing a dark secret in her past when she develops the desire to find her roots while in Europe. A visit to her mother brings no answers and a meeting with her grandmother yields the same results. Even a priest who is stalking her cannot give her a reason for living. She then seduces and kills him.She flees back to New York to find her ex-lover Angie. Angie she does find, but in the arms of Marie. Despairingly, S. views a video that sheds some light on her past - her father violated her. S. thinks of committing suicide, but decides on another course of action: living together with Marie.

Diretor

Guido Hendericks

Guido Hendericks was born in 1942 in Antwerp. He went to study film at the RITS(the Flemish film and television academy in Brussels) and graduated in 1965. He is head of the film department of Sint-Lukas College where he also teaches film directing.