{"id":1696,"date":"2009-05-18T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2015-03-29T08:11:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T08:11:29","slug":"cannes-%e2%80%93-belgian-drama-lost-persons-area-lacks-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"CANNES FILM REVIEW: Caroline Strubbe&#8217;s &#8216;Lost Persons Area&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lost-persons-area-x650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6406\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lost-persons-area-x650.jpg\" alt=\"lost persons area x650\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lost-persons-area-x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lost-persons-area-x650-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>CANNES \u2013 The setting of Caroline Strubbe&#8217;s &#8220;Lost Persons Area\u201d, which screened in Critics Week, is a wide flat plain populated by vast pylons bearing power cables that dwarf the human beings below.<\/p>\n<p>The symbolism is the best part of the film, however, which tells of a family and a stranger dealing with an accident that affects all their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Impressive exterior cinematography by Nicolas Karakatsanis is not matched in the interior scenes and, while the actors are plausible, Strubbe&#8217;s dialogue is not and too many scenes are fatally dull. The picture may find interest at a few festivals but hopes beyond that appear slim.<\/p>\n<p>Lisbeth Gruwez and Sam Louwyck play Bettina and Marcus, a couple that operates a cafe close to the pylons, while Marcus runs the company that maintains and paints the giant structures. Their young daughter Tessa (Kimka Desart) is a strange, obsessive child who collects found objects and makes quirky objets d&#8217;art.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic changes when charming Hungarian painter Szablocs (Zoltan Miklos Hajdu) signs on and Marcus is injured, resulting in the amputation of a leg.<\/p>\n<p>Strubbe strives to make the couple&#8217;s ramshackle relationship convincing and spends much time observing the eccentric child, but interest in their mutual fate soon dissolves.<\/p>\n<p>This review appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett CANNES \u2013 The setting of Caroline Strubbe&#8217;s &#8220;Lost Persons Area\u201d, which screened in Critics Week, is a wide flat plain populated by vast pylons bearing power cables that dwarf the human beings below. The symbolism is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1696\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,5,14],"tags":[134,426,4170],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival-de-cannes","category-film","category-reviews","tag-lost-persons-area","tag-caroline-strubbe","tag-festival-de-cannes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6407,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/6407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}