Keetje Tippel
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Sombre, kinetic, measured period / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →In the late 19th-century, the Tippel family moves to rural Stavoren in search of greener pastures. However, their dreams are quickly shattered, as teenage Katie is terrorized by a male-dominated society who only see her as an object. Her situation worsens when, following her father's sacking and her elder sister's descent into alcoholism, her mother decides that, rather than starving, Katie becomes a prostitute.
Our read · Keetje Tippel (1975) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded period · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Keetje Tippel
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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