Julie Keeps Quiet

This very quiet and intimate drama tells the story of a talented sixteen-year-old tennis player with a secret that she suppresses inside herself and struggles with, even though everyone empathetically offers her a helping hand. The film never says anything specific and only sporadically and cautiously offers hints, while it is difficult to get to know the protagonist and the plot is basically ordinary and unexciting. The theme of dealing with trauma is rendered almost too sensitively and subtly. Because of that, the film is rather more appealing due to its realistic depiction of the world of future professional athletes as seen from the perspective of a taciturn teenage girl. (05/07/2024)