North Sea Texas
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| Directed by | Bavo Defurne |
| Produced by | Yves Verbraeken |
| Written by |
Bavo Defurne Yves Verbraeken |
| Based on |
Nooit gaat dit over by André Sollie |
| Starring |
Jelle Florizoone Mathias Vergels Eva Van Der Gucht Katelijne Damen Noor Ben Taouet |
| Music by | Adriano Cominotto |
| Cinematography | Anton Mertens |
| Edited by | Els Voorspoels |
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Indeed films
Mollywood Eén |
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Kinepolis Film Distribution (Belgium) Cinemien (Netherlands) Strand Releasing (USA) Peccadillo Pictures (UK) |
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96 minutes |
| Country | Belgium |
| Language | Dutch |
North Sea Texas (Dutch: Noordzee, Texas) is a 2011 Flemish drama film and the first feature from cult director Bavo Defurne, starring Jelle Florizoone and Mathias Vergels. The screenplay was written by Bavo Defurne and Yves Verbraeken and is based in the 2004 children's novel Nooit gaat dit over by Andre Sollie. The film follows the story of Pim, a boy - living with his reckless mother - who falls in love with his male best friend, Gino.
A young Pim and his mother Yvette attend a fair where they meet fairworker Zoltan. Zoltan decides to rent a room in their house when he is in town, but after a few years he does not show up again. The film then jumps some years into the future.
Pim and Yvette live in a run-down house somewhere at the Belgian coast. She is a local accordion "starlet" and her fat friend Etienne drives her on the nights she has to “perform". Pim is slightly older but still childish. One day he goes inside his mother's room and dresses up with his mother's pageant clothing. She walks in on him, but remains calm. Young Pim is then introduced to Gino, who is 3 years older, Sabrina and their mother, Marcella, and adopts them as a second family.
Pim is now 14 on the eve of his 15th birthday. He remains close friends with Gino. They share an intimate moment when they masturbate in front of each other. Pim asks for the dirty cloth which Gino just used to clean himself and keeps it in his small treasure memory box together with some clothes of his mother that he used to wear.
On his birthday he visits Marcella. Sabrina asks her mother if Pim can stay the night. He and Gino sleep in a tent on the beach and have an intimate kiss after some hesitation and are suggested to have had sex. During next month, their relationship develops. However, one day after having sex at the pond, Gino begins to go to De Panne on a regular basis. The two begin to go farther apart. Gino seems to have a girlfriend named Francoise and he now lives in Dunkirk with her. Pim becomes isolated and returns to drawing and escapes in his dream world. Back at the house of Sabrina and Marcella, Sabrina catches Gino and Francoise being intimate. Pim also saw them being intimate from an open window as he stood in front of their house. Pim then vandalises Gino's motorcycle. He becomes depressed and cries at home over this. When Gino come down and finds the motorcycle vandalised, he finds the cloth he had given to Pim all those years ago wrapped around the exhaust pipe.
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