A heart-rending and authentic portrayal of two men seeking refuge at "the end of the world" where they slowly but inevitably drift into self-destruction with wry humour and copious quantities of alcohol.
In the woods of Wallonia, somewhere at the end of Belgium, two men try to laugh away their sorrows. Bob and Marcel are keeping their sense of humour while slowly disappearing from life. While their friends and family continue their lives, the two friends plan a joint-suicide under the most beautiful tree they’ve found in the forest.
»We had to think about these people in a different way than you normally think about people, because they are ruthless, they are drunk all the time, they don’t care, they don’t care about success in life, they don’t want to move up, they are the way they are and this is what you get and that’s it. I think this is also what we liked very much. You feel like you want to help them. We are all living in these cities where everything has a very fast pace and we want to be successful and this and this and this, and they want to be free and they want to drink and they want to do whatever they want. And so it means also they want to destroy themselves every now and then, they want to drive drunk, but it’s the way it is.« (Sabine Lubbe Bakker)
Sabine Lubbe Bakker
Born in 1978 in Antwerp, Belgium. While studying political sciences, she lived and worked in Damascus for about one year where she made her first short documentaries. Ne me quitte pas is her second full-length documentary.
Niels van Koevorden
Born in 1984 in Tiel, The Netherlands, he graduated from
the
Dutch
Film
Academy in
Amsterdam. Niels van Koevorden’s shorts have earned him a number of awards.