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IDFA special (3): Dutch winner A Strange Love Affair With Ego is intimate and groundbreaking

For a moment, you think Ester Gould has done the impossible with 'A Strange Love Affair With Ego'. Reversing time. Filming what is only memory. Because as we learn how she always admired her two-year older sister Rowan, we see something similar happening in a group of children playing in the Scottish countryside. The ringleader is a girl brimming with self-confidence. Destined to prove you can 'be anything you want'. A girl who, we understand, has a dubb...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

For a moment, you think Ester Gould has done the impossible with 'A Strange Love Affair With Ego'. Reversing time. Filming what is only memory. Because as we learn how she always admired her two-year older sister Rowan, we see something similar happening in a group of children playing in the Scottish countryside. The ringleader is a girl brimming with self-confidence. Destined to prove you can 'be anything you want'. A girl who, we understand, has a dubb...

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