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Klinkaart

1956 · 19 min

A quiet, oppressive short that tightens around you as a young girl's first day turns from taunting to violation.

Directed by
Paul Meyer
Genres
Drama
Overview
During her first day at work in a brickworks near Antwerp at the beginning of the last century, a teenage girl first faces harassment by the boys who work there and then, at the end of the day, she is forced to allow the boss to exercise his "droit de seigneur".

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Directed by
Paul Meyer
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • class
  • trauma
  • isolation
  • gender
Places
  • workplace
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Runtime
19 min

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