Director
Leonardo van Dijl
Composer
Caroline Shaw
Cast
Tessa Van den Broeck, Koen De Bouw, Ruth Becquart, Tijmen Govaerts
Edition 2024
97'
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2024
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Drama
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
Dutch, French
Leonardo van Dijl's feature debut about a tennis prodigy refusing to speak up amidst abuse allegations directed at her coach sees its protagonist at a breaking point in her career. Economically told and paired with Karakatsanis' muted photography, this tense #MeToo study is a therapeutic exploration of a victim's silence.
A future top tennis player, Julie - the local academy's star - easily breaks through her opponents' serve, but she refuses to do the same with her silence when her coach is suspended for alleged abuse. For Julie, silence doesn't mean weakness, it's a choice to chart a path forward at her own pace and on her own terms. As controlled as his protagonist's forehand, Leonardo van Dijl constructs his debut film as a patient character and #MeToo study that shares nothing with Guadagnino's Challengers except some tennis balls. Scene by scene, Julie Keeps Quiet creeps closer to its restrained smash, making clever use of Nicolas Karakatsanis' 35mm cinematography and Caroline Shaw's angelic music to tension emotions like a perfect racket. Japanese tennis player and activist Naomi Osaka has taken on an executive producer credit, and it's easy to see why. An impressive first serve by van Dijl.
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Credits
Directors
Leonardo van Dijl
Composers
Caroline Shaw
Cast
Tessa Van den Broeck, Koen De Bouw, Ruth Becquart, Tijmen Govaerts
Scenario
Ruth Becquart, Leonardo van Dijl
Director of Photography
Nicolas Karakatsanis
Editors
Bert Jacobs
Producers
Gilles Coulier, Gilles De Schryver, Wouter Sap, Roxanne Sarkozi, Delphine Tomson
Production studios
De Wereldvrede, Flanders Image / Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, VAF - Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds
Distributor
Paradiso Filmed Entertainment NV
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Dialogue
Dutch, French
Countries of production
Belgium, Sweden
Year
2024
Filmography
Leonardo van Dijl
Get Ripped (Short,2014), Umpire (Short, 2015), Stephanie (Short, 2020), Julie zwijgt (2024)
Technical Specs
Format
DCP
