Bo (2010)

Recommended

Belgium

Feature Film

Director: Hans Herbots

Writers: Hans Herbots, Nele Meirhaeghe, Christian Vervaet, Dirk Bracke

Cinematographer: Danny Elsen

Composer: Senjan Jansen

Cast: Ella-June Henrard, Ina Geerts, Kalina Malehounova, Thomas Ryckewaert, Anemone Valcke, Laura Ballyn

A pretty fifteen-year-old from a struggling working class family, fed-up with never being able to afford designer clothing, takes a job as an escort to make some extra money; but Deborah (aka Bo) soon finds the task of juggling school, home, and underage prostitution to be decidedly impractical and increasingly unpleasant, in Herbots’s delicate and affecting if vaguely familiar film, which benefits greatly from Henrard’s assured turn. Iain.Stott