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Vuurdoop

1988 · 30 min

A quiet, uneasy road movie short that lingers on a young man's dread as a bad dream starts to feel real.

Overview
A trainee truck-driver makes his first foreign trip with an experienced co-driver, whose self-confidence sometimes makes him careless. A road accident gives the youth a nightmare that threatens to become reality.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • coming-of-age
    • work
    • fate
    Places
    • road trip
    • countryside
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance0
    Tension4
    Darkness4
    Complexity3
    Emotional weight4

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    Details

    Directed by
    Sander Francken
    Music
    Het Paleis van Boem
    Runtime
    30 min

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