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Dusk
Original Title
Schemer- Director: Hanro Smitsman
- Writer: Anjet Daanje
- Producer: Joost de Vries; Michael John Fedun
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Twisted, tiresome, two-faced teens...and their chilling potential.
Hero-worship, unrequited love, spurned love, disloyalty, unfaithfulness...and hormones...a breeding ground for all sorts.
With a similar narrative as Van Sant's Elephant and the youthful collective of Clarke's Bully...Dusk is the cruelest addition to this genre...simply because of its accessibility.
Daanje's script is impressive, the young actors are exceptional and Smitsman brings it all together with a casual and believable cohesiveness.
Not pleasant...but, fine filmmaking.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, a story of jealousy, insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds. Group leader Caesar is able to magnify - out of all proportion - the small grievances that each of Jessie's friends bear towards her and transforms them into a general and pervasive hatred that leads ultimately to her horrible, senseless killing.
Cast & Characters
Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen as Caesar;
Gaite Jansen as Jessie;
Roos Netjes as Ilse;
Robert de Hoog as Mick;
Gerson Oratmangoen as Rico;
Melody Klaver as Frauk;
Roos Ouwehand as Anna;
Marie Louise Stheins as Lia;
Finn Poncin as Tom