People Next Door 2016 / Hasta la vista / Belgium 2011
Fictitiously elaborating on Asta Philpot’s real-life trips to a wheelchair-accessible Spanish brothel and his advocacy of prostitution as one sexual-expression option for the disabled, Come As You Are is a likable seriocomedy with assured direction. Winner of the Grand Prix at Montréal and the Audience Award at KVIFF.
Three twentysomething special-needs men go on a road trip to Spain to lose their virginity in Come As You Are, a likable seriocomedy loosely inspired by Asta Philpot, an advocate for physically-challenged sex. Genial Jozef (Tom Audenaert) is almost completely blind. Prankster Philip (Robrecht Vanden Thoren) is a paraplegic. Likewise wheelchair-bound, Lars (Gilles De Schryver) has a degenerative terminal illness that brings on paralysis and occasional fits. Fictitiously elaborating on Philpot’s real-life trips to a wheelchair-accessible Spanish brothel and his advocacy of prostitution as one sexual-expression option for the disabled, the film is never condescending, and Geoffrey Enthoven’s assured direction likewise resists overplaying the obvious emotional cues. The picture picked up the Grand Prix at Montréal and the Audience Award at KVIFF 47.
Alissa Simon
115 min / Color, DCP
Director Geoffrey Enthoven
/ Screenplay Pierre de Clercq
/ Dir. of Photography Gerd Shelfhout
/ Music Meuris & Papermouth
/ Editor Phillipe Ravoet
/ Producer Mariano Vanhoof
/ Production Fobic Films
/ Cast Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Gilles De Schryver, Tom Audenaert, Isabelle de Hertogh
/ Sales Films Boutique
/ Distributor Asociace českých filmových klubů
Geoffrey Enthoven (b. 1974, Wilrijk, Belgium), Flemish director, editor, and screenwriter, graduated with a master’s in audiovisual arts. His short graduation film The Undertaker (De aanspreker, 1999) was presented in numerous countries and won many awards. In 1999 he and Marian Vanhoof, friend and film enthusiast, founded Fobic Films. They debuted with Children of Love in 2001 and also cooperated on the doc Voice on Wings (2003). By 2010 Enthoven had directed another three features, contributing to screenwriting duties as well: The Only One (2006), which treats feelings of abandonment in old age; Happy Together (2008), about a man facing the collapse of career and family; and The Over the Hill Band (Meisjes, 2009), featuring an elderly widow who decides to get her old singing group back together. Come As You Are (2011) is his fifth feature. Then followed the tragicomedy Halfway (2014) and the comedy Brother (2016).
Asociace českých filmových klubů
Stonky 860, 686 01, Uherské Hradiště
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 572 501 989
E-mail: [email protected]
Films Boutique
Köpenicker Str. 184, 10997, Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 306 953 7850
E-mail: [email protected]
Jan Jílek
Distributor, Festival Organizer
Gilles De Schryver
Actor
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