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Product Description Sacha Polak's debut feature is a frank and explicit look at carnal desire that is told from a distinctly female perspective. She paints an erotically charged portrait of a woman whose casual sexual encounters mask a loneliness and a craving for intimacy. Hemel (Hannah Hoekstra) is a young woman who drifts through a series of anonymous one-night stands and seems only close to her father. When he finds himself a girlfriend, Hemel's jealousy puts her on the emotional edge. An emotionally and physically raw study of sexuality that is nothing less than mesmerizing. Review "Beautifully lensed look at the moment just before a daughter has to let go of her father should travel extensively and turn Polak into a name to watch." --Variety"Lust, love, and need prove a tangled knot inside the heart of one young woman in Hemel, Sacha Polak's alluring character study of a beautiful Dutch twentysomething driven to fill an emotional void with casual one-night stands...Hoekstra's stunning, star-making performance, which, in one striking close-up after another, sharply captures the fear and pain of having to let go and grow up." --Slant Magazine"Hemel stars Hannah Hoekstra as the title character, a young woman somewhere in her mid-twenties. What we come to the impression that Hemel is that she is searching for something; be it love or be it lust there s emptiness inside her, a part of her devoid of the emotional fulfillment she wants. To fill this, she tries sleeping around and having a few one night stands. This is all very casual to her, she thinks nothing of sleeping with someone she just met and has no problem chit chatting with him afterwards or even letting him shave off all of her pubic hair. As one encounter leads into the next, we have to start to wonder how and why she's so nonchalant about all of this. She very obviously enjoys sex and the pleasure that it brings her but seems resistant to actually making any sort of connection to her partners beyond the physical...this film is quite well made, occasionally surprising, and very worthwhile." --Rock! Shock! Pop! P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Actor Hannah Hoekstra (1987) graduated in 2010 from the Amsterdam School for Drama and Contemporary Music Theatre. She did her pre-grad, work experience at NT Ghent and in 2010 acted in the performance LATE EVENING IDEALS by Sanne Vogel. Hannah appeared as well in the performance Sneeuwmeisjes (Snowgirls). HEMEL is her first role in a feature film! See more Review: Excellent as I expected - This movie has everything as described, and it is worth the money. The story is good, the photography is great, the locations, it has a great package of art, plus the nudity and the explicit parts are there and uncut, I suggest to have a copy, and I am sure you will not be disappointed, and you can watch it with your girl friend, or wife. Review: OK movie to rent but purchasing think twice. - People purchase or watch movies for various reasons. type of the movie they watch usually fits in their reason to watch. There are some erotic movies or romantic movies with erotica in it or porn movies that has some story line; all of these movies you may want to watch with your partner. Hemel is not one of those movies. It has full frontal nudity ( male and female) but not sex act. Without nudity, what you may call sex scene would get PG-13. next thing to mention is the subject of the movie, the story line and conversations between character. it is nude, blunt, vulgar. it could get R rating based on language. And father-daughter relationship portrait as border line, platonic level incest. Mostly from daughter's perspective. Then and an unexplain scene in the movie. While she is sleeping, calls her dad- by the way she never called him Dad, father or any other version of it but by his name- when he comes in her room. he says" you need to pee ( out of no where, really) and picks her up, carries her to bathroom. Pulls down her panties( nothing showed but profile view), she sits and pees. Scene ends. Why was there? What purpose it served? Have no idea. Entire movie is like that. I purchased the DVD and it was not censored at all. but like I said, save your 20 box and browse internet if you wanted to see nude female for free! let me tell you here. if you are somewhat into close family relations! go rent or buy movie called "spank the Monkey" You will be entertained. Just keep kids out :)
| ASIN | B00AYGVCCK |
| Actors | Barbara Sarafian, Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet, Rifka Lodeizen |
| Best Sellers Rank | #151,902 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #1,870 in Foreign Films (Movies & TV) #22,650 in Drama DVDs |
| Customer Reviews | 3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars (192) |
| Director | Sacha Polak |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item model number | 5 |
| MPAA rating | X (Mature Audiences Only) |
| Media Format | Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Producers | Stienette Bosklopper |
| Product Dimensions | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces |
| Release date | March 19, 2013 |
| Run time | 1 hour and 23 minutes |
| Studio | Artsploitation |
| Subtitles: | English, English |
M**O
Excellent as I expected
This movie has everything as described, and it is worth the money. The story is good, the photography is great, the locations, it has a great package of art, plus the nudity and the explicit parts are there and uncut, I suggest to have a copy, and I am sure you will not be disappointed, and you can watch it with your girl friend, or wife.
O**Y
OK movie to rent but purchasing think twice.
People purchase or watch movies for various reasons. type of the movie they watch usually fits in their reason to watch. There are some erotic movies or romantic movies with erotica in it or porn movies that has some story line; all of these movies you may want to watch with your partner. Hemel is not one of those movies. It has full frontal nudity ( male and female) but not sex act. Without nudity, what you may call sex scene would get PG-13. next thing to mention is the subject of the movie, the story line and conversations between character. it is nude, blunt, vulgar. it could get R rating based on language. And father-daughter relationship portrait as border line, platonic level incest. Mostly from daughter's perspective. Then and an unexplain scene in the movie. While she is sleeping, calls her dad- by the way she never called him Dad, father or any other version of it but by his name- when he comes in her room. he says" you need to pee ( out of no where, really) and picks her up, carries her to bathroom. Pulls down her panties( nothing showed but profile view), she sits and pees. Scene ends. Why was there? What purpose it served? Have no idea. Entire movie is like that. I purchased the DVD and it was not censored at all. but like I said, save your 20 box and browse internet if you wanted to see nude female for free! let me tell you here. if you are somewhat into close family relations! go rent or buy movie called "spank the Monkey" You will be entertained. Just keep kids out :)
A**R
Disappointing.
Not that good, poor story line.
C**I
Gratification, without the commitment
Sexual gratification, without the commitment, appears to be the lead character's mission. As the plot unfolds, you realize that there is more to Hemel than something as simple as that. Let's talk about the censored version first. The censored version is what you get if you bought the streaming media from Amazon. However, if you buy the DVD, as I did, you will not have to worry about censored content. This review is about the DVD, the uncensored movie. The movie follows the life of a young lady who pursues sexual gratification for its own sake. She is not interested in forming relationships with her bed partners. There is nothing inherently wrong with this, as quite a lot of men do the same thing and are viewed differently under traditional values. What is fascinating about her is the relationship that she has with her father. The movie is Dutch, with English subtitles. However, you do get enough understanding of the story to know that she is in love with her father. Not necessarily in a sexual way, but definitely is possessive. The reason for the casual sexual encounters is simply to fulfill her needs. But clearly her heart is not in it, only her genitalia. In other words, the encounters are simply for sex. At some point in the story, it becomes clear that the father will be committing to a relationship with his girlfriend. At that point, Hemel is emotionally upset. Even to the point of contemplating jumping off the roof of a building. The star of the movie is the beautiful Dutch actress, Hannah Hoekstra. I reviewed another one of her movies, "App", earlier this year. While I enjoyed "App" more than I did this one, "Hemel" is still a fascinating movie to watch. Recommended.
S**N
skanky
Noting interesting, nothing exciting, and nothing memorable about this film.
J**N
Between the Lines
This movie leaves out a lot of information about the girl. You watch her bang many guys and towards the end you meet daddy. I get the impression the story was to make you see how she got that way by her bad relationship with daddy that is suggested toward the end of the movie. The lines are very blurred in this movie, so you have to really figure things out on your own about the movie end. The girl looked good naked and would love to see her nude in more movies. The sex scenes were erotic.
D**U
A beautiful girl with her clothes best left on
The DVD was delivered on time and in good condition as promised. That being said, when viewed it was a huge disappointment. Foreign films can suffer two types of error -- the obvious translation / subtitle error and the other error not limited to foreign films: a lack of coherence in the scripting. Early in the film we see the young Hemel going on a bed-hopping spree that for the most part satisfies her physical needs, but leaves her emotional development needs unmet. The director makes it clear from the explicit nature of the couplings that tab A indeed goes into slot B. OK but the adult audience knows this already. There is almost an antiseptic aspect in play in that while the scenes are explicit, there is not much of an erotic atmosphere generated. It is difficult for the actors and the director to pull this off but they manage to do so. One suspects that this was intended to ward off overeager censors and convince them that it is necessary for the film. I got the uncensored version by the way. We get this much: Hemel is a girl having more than her share of problems moving into womanhood. She grew up without her mother, and she has attached too strongly to her father. (The story leaves the viewer to decide if any incest is / was involved). Hemel's father brings home several attractive women home to live with him as long as their relationship lasts and it is clear on some primal level that Hemel sees them as competition. But after figuring out the above, one is left with a what does all this mean? What is next? Hemel is a film that doesn't hold together.
G**B
Not worth it.
Sorry, but this was a very lame movie. There was very little sex, and what there was, wasn't very good. I fast forwarded thru it and gave it to a friend for hiim to do whatever with it. Save your money.
こ**き
若くて可愛いのに何で特定の彼氏が出来ないんだろう。 パブで今夜も男とのきっかけを掴んで仲良くなろうとする可愛い女の子。 でも 優しい男ばかりでなく時には、暴力的な男も。 それでも笑顔を絶やさない。 何でこんなに性格もいい女なのに! 話が淡々と進みます。 16歳以上限定ですが ベッドシーンでは、見えてます。 賞も受賞しており良い作品です。
W**Y
Excellent! thanks!
R**S
very good movie
L**E
Un film très psychologique à mon avis mais bien équilibré. La vie d'une fille qui est dans ses aventures d'un soir et l'amour de son père. Elle veut être la seul , je crois, d'être proche de son père.
ア**ド
オランダの女性監督 サシャ・ポラック氏の初の長編映画で「年上の男性と次々肉体関係を重ねる 女性の彷徨を描き出した心理ドラマ」です。ベルリン 国際映画祭等を始め、多くの賞を獲った作品です。 邦題は「アブノーマル」で過激な場面が多くありそうですが、ほとんど膨らみのない胸をちょっと 見せている程度です。心理ドラマと言うことで、物語は静かに進み、上映終了となります。 私の プレーヤーでは、レターボックスサイズ。言語は、多分オランダ語、字幕は英語でオフには出来なかったです。
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