A good movie

To be honest, I wasn't sure what to expect from this flick but since I always had a weak spot for Matthias Schoenaerts, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, I have always been interested in alternative lifestyles, it was the first movie I saw dealing with the squatters in Amsterdam and only therefore I thought the damned thing was pretty neat. However, I didn't like much the idea of telling this story from the point of a view of a child. However, in this case, it was based on the childhood of the director so you might argue that she knew what she was talking about. Still, in my opinion, it is usually a misguided approach because the whole thing is always written by an adult pretending that they know exactly how a child would act in such a situation when it is usually based on preconceived assumptions. Anyway, if you would believe this movie, such a commune was definitely not the best place to raise a child, not only for the lack of rules or security but, above all, because it might be so terribly confusing. On the other hand, it seems that her parents, Raven and Dalia, didn't really know what they were getting into and, pretty much right from the start, they were not on the same line. Anyway, instead of spending more time on them which would have been much more interesting, they spent most of the duration on Karo but the only thing we really learned about this young girl, after all, was that she was struggling a lot in this environment which turned out to be some kind of experiment doomed to fail in our capitalist society. Anyway, to conclude, even if it didn't completely work, it was still a decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in this subject. 

7/10