My Queen Karo

My Queen Karo is a 2009 drama film. It was directed by Dorothée Van Den Berghe, produced by Frank Van Passel, and starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Déborah François, and Anna Franziska Jaeger. The film tells the story of Karo, a ten-year-old girl who witnesses the moral dilemmas of free love when her parents join a squatter community in 1970s Amsterdam.

My Queen Karo
Film poster
Directed byDorothée Van Den Berghe
Written byDorothée Van Den Berghe
Produced byFrank Van Passel
StarringMatthias Schoenaerts
Déborah François
Anna Franziska Jaeger
CinematographyJan Vancaillie
Edited byMarie-Hélène Dozo
Music byPeter Vermeersch
Release dates
  • 12 September 2009 (2009-09-12) (TIFF)
  • 28 October 2009 (2009-10-28) (Belgium)
Running time
101 minutes
CountriesNetherlands
Belgium
LanguagesDutch
French

The film received three nominations at the 1st Magritte Awards.[1]

Cast

Production

From the beginning, director Dorothée Van Den Berghe had chosen Anna Franziska Jaeger to play Karo, but the film took two years to put together, and by that time, she was too old for the part as she had written. "She had breasts already, and the part I had written was definitely for a child who was younger than that. So.. I held auditions and auditions, but I never found that quality, what I found in her. I rewrote the script, then, and we had to rethink how to shoot the nudity, for example, because of her breasts. But I think it puts the film into a better perspective, a child that age."[2]

References
  1. "Les Magritte du cinema 2011: les nominés" (in French). Académie André Delvaux. Archived from the original on 5 February 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  2. "TIFF Interview: In conversation with Dorothée Van Den Berghe & Matthias Schoenaerts". www.artandculturemaven.com. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
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