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Mood:
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Plot:
- Coming of AgeTeenage LifeMind and SoulUnfulfillmentYouthGays and LesbiansSingle ParentInnocence Lost more...
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- DramaForeignPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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- BelgiumEuropeVillage
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Noordzee, Texas, 2011
Dutch
Belgium
Profile of Noordzee, Texas
Noordzee, Texas can be described as bittersweet, sentimental, and touching. The plot revolves around themes of unfulfillment, coming of age, and teenage life. The main genres are drama, foreign, and period. In approach, Noordzee, Texas is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a village. It is located in Belgium. Noordzee, Texas takes place in the 1960s. It is based on a book.
Summary of Noordzee, Texas
Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere at the Belgian coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel (better known as Yvette Mimosa, local accordion starlet). Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her fat Etienne with his lousy grey Fiat as a driver for the nights she has to “perform”.
As a kid Pim dreams of a better life, imagining princesses and beauty queens. But when Pim turns 16 he dreams of Gino, the boy next door, instead. Ever since they were children there has been this tension between them. Now Gino is Pim’s motorcycling hero. Cold mockery, little humiliations and tiny bits of hope make up Pim’s life. No wonder he sometimes flees to his dream world.
Then one day Yvette leaves with young, hunky Zoltan, the boy from the fair. When Yvette leaves her son alone in the empty house, Pim seizes the opportunity and his dreams become half-truths. Pim moves to the neighbours’ house to live with Marcella, his “second mum”. And with Sabrina, Gino’s sister, who circles longingly around Pim. He even sleeps in Gino’s bed! But Gino’s off romancing and living with a girl from across the border. Dreams never come true. Or do they? On a rainy day Gino returns.
Details
| Language: | Dutch |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Release date: | 12 January 2012 |
Cast and Crew
as Yvette
as Marcella
as Zoltan
as Pim
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