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Before Bloom

2019 · 30 min

A quiet, introspective hospital-room vigil where stillness and memory press in, asking patience and rewarding it with quiet emotional weight.

Directed by
Ludvig Christian Næsted Poulsen
Starring
Isa Marie Henningsen, Alice E. Bier Zandén, Rikke Wölck
Overview
Hannah is in a hospital room. She has just had the crucial gender reassignment surgery that completes her transformation from boy to girl. She knows she has to be in the hospital for a week until the wounds heal, but the white walls and endless waiting before she can fly from the nest seem insurmountable. There is emptiness, and only the memory of the things she has lived through reverberates in her consciousness.

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Directed by
Ludvig Christian Næsted Poulsen
Starring
Isa Marie Henningsen, Alice E. Bier Zandén, Rikke Wölck
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • isolation
    • memory
    • healing
    • loneliness
    Places
    • hospital
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance1
    Tension3
    Darkness5
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight8

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    Details

    Directed by
    Ludvig Christian Næsted Poulsen
    Starring
    Isa Marie Henningsen, Alice E. Bier Zandén, Rikke Wölck, Camilla Bendix, Ina Overgaard
    Runtime
    30 min
    Languages
    Danish, German

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