JAN-WILLEM VAN EWIJK | NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, SLOVENIA | 2024 | 100 MIN | DUTCH
After the death of his mother, Rein moves to a remote village in the Alps, where he spends his days teaching snowboarding and communing with his picturesque surroundings. The tranquility is abruptly interrupted when Gijs, Rein’s boisterous and outgoing father, comes to visit, shoving his mild-mannered son into his shadow any chance he can. When Gijs insists on accompanying Rein and his friends on a ski trip into the mountains, he quickly ingratiates himself with his young new companions, even flirting with Rein’s girlfriend. As tensions mount and testosterone flows, the two push each other to a height there may be no coming back from. Visionary director Jan-Willem van Ewijk smartly exploits real life family dynamics in the casting of actual father and son Reinout and Gijs Scholten van Aschat. Their perfectly tuned performances coupled with the strikingly captured vast landscapes build an icy atmosphere for this tense study of familial egos.
Cast: Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Pia Amofa, Julien Genoud
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