TIFF 2018 Review: RETROSPEKT (Netherlands/Belgium 2018) ***1/2

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Puzzle-like psychological drama about a domestic violence support worker .

Director:

Esther Rots

Retrospeckt by definition is the Dutch word meaning the series of events that occurred in the past.  Director Ether Rot’s RETROSPEKT cleverly puzzles together a timeline-jumping narrative of protagonist Mette’s relationship to work, life, and motherhood culminating in catastrophic events.  

In many films, a non-chronological narrative is chosen at the director’s whimsy but in this film there is a reason for it.  Mette (Circé Lethem) has undergone an accident that has jolted her memory and psychical condition.  The story unfolds just as she is fitting her past together.

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