Dorsvloer vol confetti (2014)
Release Year: 2014
Nation: Belgium, Netherlands
Alternative Title: Konfetti Ernte, Confetti Harvest
Director: Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab
Writer: Chris Westendorp
Production & Genre
Producer: N/A
Companies: Column Film, NTR, Grobbendonk Films, Mollywood
Genre: film based on a novel, drama
Budget: N/A
Awards & Similar
Awards: N/A
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Keywords
Keywords: farm, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, family relationships, coming of age, religion, woman director, brother sister relationship
Story
The young Katelijne grows up in a strict Protestant peasant family. As the only girl between six brothers, she is hardly involved in farm work and is excluded from daily conversations. Hereby she lets her imagination run free by surrendering to Biblical stories, gossip and even fairy tales, although she is not allowed to read them. During her brother's wedding, however, she overwhelms her family with literature, saying goodbye to her childhood.
Summary
In 17th-century rural Flanders, Katelijne, the sole daughter among six brothers in a stern Protestant farming family, finds solace and escape from her isolating upbringing through vivid imaginings spurred by biblical tales, local gossip, and forbidden fairy stories. Her world changes dramatically at her eldest brother's wedding; there, she asserts her newfound literary prowess, marking both her personal evolution and the end of her childhood innocence.
