Two girls, one party, zero dignity — and a snack bar moment that changes everything.
Two sixteen-year-old girls, Sanne and Clarissa, are invited to a party by one of their brothers. The girls have done their best to dress appropriately, but when they arrive at the party it turns out that they are completely underdressed and, moreover, by far the youngest. Afterwards they visit a snack bar, where suddenly a nice boy Sanne had met that morning enters the supermarket. 'Snacken' is a subtle story, in which it is not so much about the story, but about the exchanges of glances between two 16-year-old girlfriends, in which vulnerability and bravura compete for priority.
Acting
Harmsen and Cabolet's wordless communication is devastatingly precise.
Direction
Lammers lets silences do the heavy lifting — and they do.
Director
David Lammers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
'Snacken' captures a specifically Dutch working-class adolescent experience rarely seen in international cinema — the snack bar as social hub, the blunt social hierarchies.
Sallie Harmsen was only 15 during filming; the party scene's discomfort was largely genuine — most extras were actual local teens not told to 'act nice.'
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