Johan van der Keuken. Johan van der Keuken. In his highly acclaimed second film with blind children, JVDK focuses on a young boy who is reaching puberty and is struggling to carve out his path. At one point, the boy takes the microphone and becomes the film's reporter. JVDK's lifelong passion for music is highlighted in this portrait of the jazz saxophonist Webster.
Beauty focuses on the dream world of a fascist spy.
Total running time 86 min. Johan van der Keuken. In Dutch with French subtitles. Johan van der Keuken. Bert Schierbeek takes its subtitle from a volume of poems that the Dutch poet wrote for his wife after her death and celebrates the power of language to change absence into presence.