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North Sea Texas
2011 Belgian film by Bavo Defurne
North Sea Texas (Dutch: Noordzee, Texas) is a 2011 Belgiandramaromance film directed by Bavo Defurne in his feature directorial debut, who co-wrote the script with Yves Verbraeken, based on André Sollie's Nooit gaat dit over. The film stars Jelle Florizoone, Mathias Vergels, and Eva Van Der Gucht. The film follows Pim (Florizoone) falling in love with his best friend, Gino (Vergels).
Plot
[edit]A young Pim and his mother, Yvette, live in the Belgian countryside with their dog, a Miniature Pinscher named Mirza. The mother, a lonely divorcee, plays a piano accordion, and patronizes a local bar called Texas. One day Pim and his mother attend a fair, where they meet a traveling carny named Zoltan. Zoltan is kind to the younger Pim, and Pim is infatuated. Zoltan rents a room in Yvette's home intermittently, but later stops coming to town. Meanwhile, Yvette begins spending time with a man named Etienne, who is brutish and macho, and whom Pim immediately despises.
As time passes, Pim develops a close friendship with the slightly older Gino, who becomes his best friend. Pim falls in love with Gino, and Gino explores his sexuality with the adoring Pim, and the two become increasingly intimate. They both agree to keep
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Inside Pim’s Emotional World: A Conversation with Bavo Defurne
By Tom Ue.
Born in 1971 and a graduate of the St Lukas Art School in Brussels, artist, photographer, and filmmaker Bavo Defurne established himself as an exciting new talent with a sequence of critically-acclaimed and prize-winning short films that explore gay love and loss, the body, and the power of nature and silence. He lives near the port city of Ostend in Belgium, on the coastline where North Sea Texas was made. Defurne discusses his first feature film in the following interview, completed by email on 21 January 2013.
Congratulations on this fascinating film! What led you to adapt André Sollie’s children’s novel Nooit gaat dit over?
The novel has a lot of elements that I had worked with but wanted to explore more. There are many moments in the novel that are ‘iconic’ for coming of age in general and a gay one in particular.
Another unique feature of Sollie’s novel is that it is optimistic. ‘Old School’ gay coming-of-agers tend to be very negative and depressing. I guess Brokeback Mountain is a sort of climax of this pessimistic genre. One could call it a perfect sad-ended-gay-movie. Just like a lot of other movies – and my short ones as well – it is obsessed with loneliness and rejection
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