Dernier lit

The former glory of a hotel in Ostend. Emily reminisces about her childhood, when she gave solo performances as a child prodigy, about her hellish relationship with her mother and her turbulent love for Ana, a relationship that shocked Flemish
conformist society. Meanwhile, her lover rests on the bed in the suite. On the ground floor a party of bailiffs are celebrating Club Brugge’s victory. The motionless backdrop smothers all passion in the bud. To return to real life, everything requires an act that is both heartbreaking and irreversible.

Christophe Sermet has adapted a novel by Hugo Claus, filled with foolish love, disrespect and death wishes. A biting and pathetically immoral tale in chiaroscuro in which the tragicomic humour swings back and forth between Spilliaert’s paintings and Nan Goldin’s photographs.