Perl oder Pica (Little Secrets)

15:00
27 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening


Pusat Kebudayaan Italia
Jl. HOS. Cokroaminoto No. 117 - Menteng - T 392-7531

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Little Secrets
Pol Cruchten, 2006, 86 min
Luxembourg. Drama. Luxembourg with English subtitles.
Director: Pol Cruchten
The kind of movie that’s unafraid to show a dad and son impulsively deciding to skip happily down the street, Pol Cruchten’s sixth feature suggests that Luxembourg’s unfairly neglected film industry, straddling France, Belgium, and Germany, could turn out to be next year’s cinematic discovery.

A witty but guardedly nostalgic look back to Luxembourg in 1962, Little Secrets (Perl Oder Pica) follows how the secrets of adulthood are gradually revealed to Norbi, impish twelve-year-old son of a disciplinarian typewriter merchant (Perl and Pica are the two font choices, in U.S. terms Pica and Elite).

Crass altar boy by day (estimating the tips he’ll earn serving at funerals), he’s a miserable bedwetter by night who gives pep talks to his bladder (“No puddles tonight!”), alas with little success. Trying to crack a mysterious code of secret references in his father’s account books, Norbi must also endure his mother’s excruciatingly solicitous talk about the birds and the bees (though he later sneaks into a porn movie which we watch reflected on his cornea, as handsomely and imaginatively shot by Jerzy Palacz).

Hard as it is to credit that anything real happened before he was born, Norbi also discovers that his town still harbors resentments about wartime Nazi collaborators and that an Italian couple are early harbingers of the coming wave of immigrants who will soon outnumber the natives of the grand duchy. [picture: The BritishFilms Catalogue]

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