Title: 170 Hz AKA: -- Year: 2011 Original title: 170 Hz Runtime: 1 hour, 22 minutes Country: Netherlands Language: Dutch Subtitles: English (hard-subbed) Genre: Drama
Director: Joost van Ginkel
Cast Gaite Jansen ... Evy Michael Muller ... Nick Eva van Heijningen ... Mother Evy Ariane Schluter ... Mother Nick Porgy Franssen ... Father Nick Robert de Hoog ... Sijp Hugo Haenen ... Father Evy Baue van Leyden ... Friend Sijp Valerie Pos ... Caro
Plot / Synopsis
The Story: 170 Hz is a film about unconditional love and the freedom that goes with it. Nick and Evy are two adolescents who fall hopelessly in love with each other. Their love has no voice or sound as they are both deafmute. They have their own ways of communicating with each other, so while being in love already makes them stand apart from the rest of the world, in the splendid isolation of their soundless love they distance themselves from their surroundings even more. When they sense that their parents do not fully agree with them being together, they develop an audacious plan: they will flee and hide in a special place, where Evy will become pregnant and have a baby - they are convinced that once they have a child together nothing and nobody will be able to keep them apart. Nick takes the initiative and drives off with Evy to the hiding place he has meticulously prepared, the wreck of a former Soviet submarine in a distant part of the harbour... ~ IMDb
170 Hz is the volume of a whisper, a sound almost too faint to be heard. Sixteen-year-old Evy has a common high school existence and caring parents, but her deaf reality has always made her an outsider. All this changes when she meets Nick, a far more rebellious 19-year-old who is also deaf, and ignites in her a vision of their coexistence. When Evy’s interest in school and home life deteriorate, Nick whisks her away to an abandoned Soviet submarine where they plan a family life together. Joost van Ginkel’s debut feature commands the audience from its first frames with a cinematic vocabulary that plays off the extrasensory perception that Nick and Evy bring to their world. Their love is shown not through what they say, but in every gaze and touch, enhanced by close-ups and unique camera angles. The ambient sound design perfectly captures the psychology of their world. Especially in the second half, where their underwater metallic home creates sonic tremors they cannot hear, speaking volumes about their young lives. 170 HZ is an invigorating film that transcends cinema’s ability to merely tell a story and immerses the audience in an emotional space that can only be created by great art. ~ siff.net
170 Hz (2011)
