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SUMMARY:CiNEMercator - THE COOL LAKES OF DEATH (Nouchka van Brakel\, 1982)
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DESCRIPTION:Nouchka van Brakel had established herself as one of the most d
	istinctive\nfeminist voices in Dutch cinema\, challenging the conventions 
	of female\nrepresentation with films such as The Debut and A Woman Like Ev
	e. With The Cool\nLakes of Death\, adapted from Frederik van Eeden’s 1900 
	novel\, she turned to the\nnineteenth century to examine the psychological
	 and social confinement of women\nwith remarkable contemporary urgency.\n\
	nHedwig\, a young woman of bourgeois upbringing whose longing for love\, s
	piritual\nfulfilment and sensual experience collides with the rigid moral 
	structures of\nher environment. Her gradual descent into addiction\, despa
	ir and psychological\ncollapse unfolds not simply as personal tragedy\, bu
	t as the consequence of a\nsociety that offers women little language\, fre
	edom or legitimacy for their\ndesires.\n\nBeneath the film’s elegant perio
	d surfaces lies a sharp examination of the\nrelationship between repressio
	n and madness and of the ways in which female\nsuffering has historically 
	been moralised rather than understood. The film is at\nonce an intimate po
	rtrait of a woman struggling to inhabit her own existence and\na broader r
	eflection on the devastating distance between social respectability\nand i
	nner life.\n\nThis film is chosen by Andreas\n[https://www.supermercator.n
	l/cinemercator/team-cinemercator]
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cinemercator-the-cool-lakes-of-death-no
	uchka-van-brakel-1982
GEO:52.3689648;4.8512865
LOCATION:Supermercator - Mercatorplein 3H\, 1057 BX Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:feminism,film,mental health
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Nouchka van Brakel had established herself 
	as one of the most distinctive feminist voices in Dutch cinema, challengin
	g the conventions of female representation with films such as <em>The Debu
	t</em> and <em>A Woman Like Eve</em>. With The Cool Lakes of Death, adapte
	d from Frederik van Eeden’s 1900 novel, she turned to the nineteenth centu
	ry to examine the psychological and social confinement of women with remar
	kable contemporary urgency.</p><p>Hedwig, a young woman of bourgeois upbri
	nging whose longing for love, spiritual fulfilment and sensual experience 
	collides with the rigid moral structures of her environment. Her gradual d
	escent into addiction, despair and psychological collapse unfolds not simp
	ly as personal tragedy, but as the consequence of a society that offers wo
	men little language, freedom or legitimacy for their desires.</p><p>Beneat
	h the film’s elegant period surfaces lies a sharp examination of the relat
	ionship between repression and madness and of the ways in which female suf
	fering has historically been moralised rather than understood. The film is
	 at once an intimate portrait of a woman struggling to inhabit her own exi
	stence and a broader reflection on the devastating distance between social
	 respectability and inner life.</p><p><em>This film is chosen by </em><a h
	ref="https://www.supermercator.nl/cinemercator/team-cinemercator"><em>Andr
	eas</em></a></p>
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