Lost Persons Area

Running time: 109 mins

Sometimes you have to get lost to find the way to what you really want and what you really need.

In front of a featureless landscape, somewhere in Belgium, high tension towers are the only landmarks. Living among these industrial skeletons are Marcus, Bettina and their daughter, Tessa. Marcus, along with a Hungarian engineer, Szabolcs, has a company that maintains the towers; Bettina runs the cantina. Tessa lives her own solitary life, wandering the emptiness whispering to herself while collecting small forgotten things and arranging them mysteriously. Four people adrift in their own private eddies.

With understated performances (young Kimka Desart as Tessa), muted colors and an occasional haunting sigh of music, this is a film of telling moments closely observed, with a denouement both inevitable and surprising. These characters and their fates will linger in your memory long after the film is over.

? Charlie Cockey