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In this endearing, oddball comedy, socially awkward Patrick works as the handyman on his parent’s naturist (read: nudist) campsite. His father is unwell and his mother is blind.
Between taking care of them and responding to the demands of the camp’s very vocal, long-term clients, Patrick can barely wait to retreat to his rigidly ordered workshop where he pursues his hobby, designing and creating furniture. Soon, two major blows strike: his father dies and his favorite hammer goes missing. How, in a place where everyone literally lets everything hang out, can something disappear? But to paraphrase one critic, rarely have we seen characters as naked as these with so much to hide. Debuting director and writer Tim Mielants took inspiration from a trip to a nudist camp with his parents in the 1980s. Amazingly, he has no problem convincing his desired actors, including Kiwi Jermaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords), to appear in their birthday suits. (Alissa Simon)
Director Biography
Belgian director Tim Mielants leaped from directing a pair of acclaimed shorts, “The Sunflyers” (2005) and “Desert Ski” (2007), to helming numerous international television series episodes, most notably the entire third season of Peaky Blinders. Patrick (2019) is his first feature.
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