Girl

2002
40%

Meisje is the story of three women on a cross-road in their lives. Muriel, the young girl (Meisje), is searching for direction. She breaks up with her parents, her steady boy-friend and the restrictive village life. She craves for independance in Brussels and moves in with the unconstrained and vivid Laura, a woman with a chaotic love-life and a growing desire for a child. Martha, Muriels mother, watches from a distance and finds her own enclosed life bursting open again, recognising a forgotten girl's dream. Their lives cross and influence one another and in the end they have an interesting and turbulent evening. Meisje is a movie about the subtle and immense power that drives woman...