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Leonardo van Dijl

Julie zwijgt (Julie Keeps Quiet)

Director Leonardo van Dijl Composer Caroline Shaw Cast Tessa Van den Broeck, Koen De Bouw, Ruth Becquart, Tijmen Govaerts
97' - 2024 - Drama - Format: DCP - Dialogue: Dutch, French
Leonardo van Dijl's feature debut about a tennis prodigy refusing to speak up amidst abuse allegations directed at her coach sees its protagonist at a breaking point in her career. Economically told and paired with Karakatsanis' muted photography, this tense portrait of an ambitious teenager is a therapeutic exploration of a victim's silence.
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Tuesday October
16:30 Kinepolis 5 Subtitles: Dutch - French
10
Thursday October
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20:30 Kinepolis 2 Subtitles: Nederlands - Frans
11
Friday October
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10:00 Kinepolis 1 Subtitles: Nederlands - Frans
12
Saturday October
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17:30 Kinepolis 3 Subtitles: Nederlands - Frans
14
Monday October
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22:30 Kinepolis 1 Subtitles: Engels
A future top tennis player, Julie - the local academy's star - easily breaks through her opponents' serve, but she refuses to do the same with her silence when her coach is suspended for alleged abuse. For Julie, silence doesn't mean weakness, it's a choice to chart a path forward at her own pace and on her own terms. As controlled as his protagonist's forehand, Leonardo van Dijl constructs his debut film as a patient character study that shares nothing with Guadagnino's Challengers except some tennis balls. Scene by scene, Julie Keeps Quiet creeps closer to its restrained smash, making clever use of Nicolas Karakatsanis' 35mm cinematography and Caroline Shaw's angelic music to tension emotions like a perfect racket. Japanese tennis player and activist Naomi Osaka has taken on an executive producer credit, and it's easy to see why. An impressive first serve by van Dijl.

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Credits

Directors

Leonardo van Dijl

Composers

Caroline Shaw

Cast

Tessa Van den Broeck, Koen De Bouw, Ruth Becquart, Tijmen Govaerts

Scenario

Ruth Becquart, Leonardo van Dijl

Director of Photography

Nicolas Karakatsanis

Editors

Bert Jacobs

Producers

Gilles Coulier, Gilles De Schryver, Wouter Sap, Roxanne Sarkozi, Delphine Tomson

Production studios

De Wereldvrede, Flanders Image / Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, VAF - Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds

Distributor

Paradiso Filmed Entertainment NV

More info

Dialogue

Dutch, French

Countries of production

Belgium, Sweden

Year

2024

Filmography

Leonardo van Dijl
Get Ripped (Short,2014), Umpire (Short, 2015), Stephanie (Short, 2020), Julie zwijgt (2024)

Technical Specs

Format
DCP