Brownian Movement

In the language of Physics, the Brownian Movement refers to the random motion of solid particles in a fluid mass. In the well-tuned life of Charlotte, a successful doctor living in Belgium with her seemingly perfect family, the same random movement leads her to the arms of different men – either her patients or other satellites, who usually remain unwanted due to their unusual appearance – where she steams off her deep existential anxiety. A meticulous character study that proves Leopold’s talent in open, unprecedented cinematic forms and elicits an extraordinary, subtle performance from Sandra Hüller (the protagonist of Toni Erdmann).

Screening Schedule

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Direction: Nanouk Leopold

Script: Nanouk Leopold

Cinematography: Frank van den Eeden

Editing: Katharina Wartena

Sound: Ferry de Pater

Music: Harry de Wit

Actors: Sandra Hüller, Dragan Bakema, Sabine Timoteo

Production: Circe Films

Producers: Stienette Bosklopper

Make Up: Nathalie De Hen

Format: 35mm

Color: Color

Production Country: Netherlands

Production Year: 2010

Duration: 97΄

Contact: Playtime, info@playtime.group

Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam and from the Dutch Film and Television Academy. Her debut Îles Flottantes was selected for the IFFR Tiger Competition in 2001. Guernsey was selected for the Quinzaine at Cannes in 2005. Wolfsbergen premiered at the Forum of the Berlinale 2007 and was selected for TIFF in the same year. Brownian Movement premiered in Toronto in 2010 and had its European premiere at the Forum in Berlin in 2011. In 2013 It’s All So Quiet was the opening film of the Berlinale Panorama Special. In 2018 Cobain had its world premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation section. Nanouk became a member of the Society of the Arts of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 2016. In 2017 she directed her first play, From the Life of the Marionettes, for the prestigious Amsterdam theatre group ITA and in 2019 The Homecoming by Harold Pinter. Nanouk also makes video installations together with visual artist Daan Emmen. Early 2021 they finished an installation for the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam. The same year she made her opera debut with Der Zwerg by Zemlinsky for the Dutch National Opera. She also directed Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch in 2021. With Whitetail, Leopold makes her highly anticipated return to the silver screen.