Un Monde (2021)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 72 minuten
Alternative title: Playground
Country:
Belgium
Directed by: Laura Wandel
Stars: Maya Vanderbeque, Günter Duret and Karim Leklou
IMDb score:
7,3 (5.152)
Releasedate: 20 October 2021
Un Monde plot
Young Nora goes to a new school, where her brother Abel also attends. She discovers that Abel is being bullied, but he doesn't want her to say anything about it. Her father, on the other hand, urges her to take steps. Nora finds herself torn between the will to help and the urge to integrate into her new school.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
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As far as I'm concerned, a justified entry for the Oscars from a Belgian angle. Strong debut by Laura Wandel, who does give her business card here. In the footsteps of Fien Troch or Chantal Akerman? Perhaps a bit too early to announce this, especially towards Akerman, but this tastes like more.
Not that it's all that spectacular, but it is effective. Wandel succeeds in looking at the whole school happening from the world and point of view of a child. That horrible first day of school with countless unknown children. The thousands of sounds that come at you on the playground or in the refectory, not to mention the torture in gymnastics and swimming lessons. Wandel lets you relive the lesser sides of your primary school days intensely.
She does this optimally by filming at child height. By focusing on Nora, who is in the picture almost non-stop, and often blurring the surroundings, that view is further enhanced. I also had the feeling that the ambient sounds were deliberately optimized to create such a narrow feeling.
What an achievement from little Maya Vanderbeque. Seemingly effortlessly she plays the tiles of the roof. Substantively also very strong around bullying and above all to be accepted, to belong. Nice interplay of emotions and feelings. Strong ending also with a deafening silence during the credits. The full house also continued to mouse silent, thinking away how it could degenerate like this…
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Filmkriebel
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- 10013 messages
- 4679 votes
The big winner of the Magrittes (the Walloon Oscars). Bullying seen through the eyes of the sister of a bullied. Un Monde takes place entirely in a primary school. Nora sees from afar how her brother is being bullied, and first wants to help because you are supposed to defend your brother. However, her attitude changes : in order to fit in herself and not lose her own circle of friends, she then distances herself from him, but it is a choice that clearly hurts her inside. They are recognizable human reactions that transcend the rational. Developing social skills is often a painful process that can lead children down strange paths. It ends here fortunately on a positive note.
Visually nothing special, so the film certainly doesn't get any points as far as I'm concerned. It's a standard arthouse film without more. A strong performance from the girl, who can convey complex feelings at such a young age. I was quite impressed and this is also a successful film for me, but mainly because of the way it is presented.
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Movsin
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- 8442 votes
The school events, with the fun and especially less fun sides, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old, which is accentuated by the camera that deliberately ignores as many other characters as possible.
Central, however, are the bullying, the cynically humiliating expulsion of a child from the group, which does not lead without nasty, dramatic consequences.
Stunning, emotional performance of Maya Vanderbecque as the young girl, the younger sister who also experiences the whole event without psychological scars and has to undergo it powerlessly.
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