Sundance 2023: Belgian Actress Veerle Baetens Makes her Directorial Debut with "When It Melts"
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- 25 Apr 2023
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Since 1978, rising talent and hidden movie gems have been put in the limelight and given an international stage in Park City, Utah, thanks to living legend Robert Redford, who created this jewel of a film festival.
On January 21st, 2023, Flemish movie star Veerle Baetens’ directorial debut film, titled When It Melts, held its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
When It Melts tells the story of a young girl called Eva. After an absence that lasted 13 years, she returns to her small Flemish hometown village in the dead of winter. She is now ready to confront herself and come to terms with past traumas.
Veerle Baetens, who was awarded Best Actress at The European Film Awards in 2013 for her role in The Broken Circle Breakdown, put herself on the director’s chair to film the adaptation of the international best-selling novel Het Smelt, written by the young Belgian writer Lize Spit. The film highlights loneliness and illustrates the deeply buried pain inside this coming-of-age story of Eva, whose need for love and attention is inhibited due to her frozen emotions. She becomes her own worst enemy and the enemy of the people around her as well. Read More..
