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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #106. Veerle Baetens’ When It Melts

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January 12, 2023

When It Melts

Belgian actress Veerle Baetens (best known for The Broken Circle Breakdown and Mothers’ Instinct) moved behind the camera for her directorial debut on a project that was getting terrific buzz (plus Prix ARTE Kino Intl. coin) before it even went into production. A book-to-film adaptation based on Lize Spit’s Het Smelt — When It Melts is a film that highlights loneliness, burying the pain and as Baetens illustrates … it is the quiet people who have the loudest minds. Rosa Marchant and Charlotte De Bruyne share the same character and….the same traumas. Savage Films’ Bart Van Langendonck (Racer and the Jailbird) is producing.

Gist: This follows a woman who returns to her small Flemish hometown 13 years after a pivotal summer with her best friends, to come to terms with past traumas.

Release Date/Prediction: This was selected to compete in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance. We expect more film festival play to follow.