Hemel

2012
Unrated
1h 20m

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A promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.A promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.A promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.

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- 3 wins & 5 nominations

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Hannah Hoekstra said she had doubts about accepting the role because of the graphic nude scenes: "Already in the first scene I'm in bed with a man and my pubic hair is shaved off. I really doubted whether I should play this role, whether by doing so I wouldn't be opening the door to a string of nude roles. Guys, we'll ask Hannah Hoekstra, she'll take off her clothes. That I said yes anyway was due to the good script and the fact that both the scriptwriter and the director were women. Hemel is so much about female sexuality, about searching for the limit, about saying no, about intimacy... I would find it almost disgusting for a man to write a script like that."

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9/10

Hannah Hoekstra Naked-Body and Soul

"Hemel" is a remarkable film--like Greenaway's best for example, what you find disquieting at first--here the raunchy soft porn realism of Hemel's love/sex life--slowly becomes fascinating when you realize that she is actually suffering a great deal. And Hemel, the emotionally stunted tart in this 2012 Dutch release directed by Sascha Polak is certainly promiscuous. Like Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, Hemel is happy leading the life of a wayward adolescent. She sleeps with just about anything that comes her way, including one unsavory character who chokes and rapes her and a thin blond Dutchman who makes her shave her private parts before having intercourse. Hemel's cold dad Gijs is at the root of much of her trauma and this film is also a smart psychological study. Hannah Hoekstra as Hemel tows a fine line between sexy and skanky-she bears an uncanny resemblance to Nicole Kidman, both in her fine, uh, features and superb acting ability.