Corinna Schnitt

2003 / 06:00

An idyllic scene on a summery day. In the grass under an exuberantly flowering tree, a boy and a girl are stretched out together on a rug. They are young, so their friendship still hovers between child play and grown-up desires. They are using strangely adult language. The boy calls her beautiful, and asks her if they could not become more 'romantic', at which the girl calls him a charmer, and giggles her way out of it. They listen to each other's heartbeat. The humming and whooshing we hear when they do could easily be the sound of their hormones running riot. With birds warbling loudly, the rest of the soundtrack emphatically underlines the atmosphere of rococo paintings. Running and frolicking about on the grass, the youngsters eventually unload the tension, but they transgress the borderlines of their private Elysian field. The more the camera zooms out to keep them inside the image frame, the more it shows of the world that surrounds them. (Vinken & van Kampen)

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