Margot Schaap
Drijfzand (Quicksand)
113'
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2021
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Dutch, Estonian, English
Director:
Margot Schaap
Composer:
Thalia Ioannidou
With:
Hanna van Vliet, Elsie de Brauw, Elin Koleci
QUICKSAND tells the story of an intriguing mother-daughter relationship and its repercussions for three generations of women.
Suze lives a slow-paced life with her Estonian husband and bubbly sixyear-old daughter on an island in the Netherlands. When her colourful and extravagant mother Helena pays a surprise visit to inform her daughter that she’s ill, Suze slowly relapses into severe compulsive behavior. Torn between her mother and her daughter, Suze is forced to make an emotional but liberating choice.
Suze lives a slow-paced life with her Estonian husband and bubbly sixyear-old daughter on an island in the Netherlands. When her colourful and extravagant mother Helena pays a surprise visit to inform her daughter that she’s ill, Suze slowly relapses into severe compulsive behavior. Torn between her mother and her daughter, Suze is forced to make an emotional but liberating choice.
Suze and her husband now live a slow-paced life with their bubbly six-year-old daughter on a small island in the Netherlands. When Suze’s colourful, extravagant mother Helena informs Suze about the tumour in her head, Suze decides to start travel back and forth to the city to help her. Torn between her mother and her daughter, Suze is forced to make an emotional but liberating choice.
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Credits
Director
Margot Schaap
Composer
Thalia Ioannidou
With
Hanna van Vliet, Elsie de Brauw, Elin Koleci
Scenario
Margot Schaap
Director of Photography
Emo Weemhoff
Editor
Fatih Tura
Producer
Ellen Havenith, Katrin Kissa
Production studios
PRPL
Distributor
Vedette
More information
Dialogue
Dutch, Estonian, English
Countries of production
Greece, The Netherlands, Estonia
Year
2021
Filmography
Margot Schaap
Gaandeweg (short, 2008), Lynn (short, 2009), Vanaf hier (short, 2010), School Full of Fish (short, 2014), 12 Months in 1 Day (2015)
