Review Rewind ★ Kinepolis Antwerp
“Cringe but some things were funny.” It is certainly not our words to describe Rewind, the first – and hopefully last – film about the influencers CEMI. But it’s spot on if you ask us. It is that sentence that we immediately heard from the mouth of the teenage girl who was sitting behind us when the hall light went back on 78 minutes completely out of the print. That is to say, actually 88 because Kinepolis takes a break of 10 minutes.
In Rewind we see how Céline Dept suddenly enters a lycée in 1996 when she has tried on a pair of VR glasses that Michiel received from a company to review them. So it appears that there is something wrong with the thing. Michiel Callebaut, however, is stuck in 2022, far removed from his girlfriend and also in professional trouble. He and Céline were due to put their 500th post online by Friday and had something special in mind for that. Namely, he had asked Pat Krimson and Loredana De Amicis to remix an existing song of theirs. Does CEMI become the past tense of he in it to bring them back to the present? And will she remain faithful? Because in 1996 Adam (Ruben Degroote) turned out to have a soft spot for her…
It becomes clear in Rewind that influencers are not actors. The dialogues are stiff and it all feels very fake and artificial. Fortunately the cast is subtitled because they usually don’t blow their ‘g’ which makes it very difficult to understand them. We argue for a compulsory diction certificate for all those who have acting ambitions.
Michael joins in like a rake. On the big screen, he exudes zero comma zero charisma that makes you wonder what the hell Céline sees in him. The camera loves Dept, that much should be clear and director Matthias Temmermans understands that all too well. So she can be nice and sexy in school uniform with her socks pulled up to just below the knee. The best shot from Rewind? Specifically those scenes where she is taken from the stairs when she is at the top of the stairs. Yes, those legs in combination with that dress and that lovely nineties haircut, come into their own so well and make you dream.
It does not alter the fact that we do not find the traditional role patterns (Céline cooks and cleans, Michiel what sits too, then Carlos, a character of color, portrayed by Jean-Romy Manzila) that Rewind presents, is not of this time, although there are feminist traps such as a plea that women will even go a lot in the future as men, underdogs will dominate the world and you will be able to fall in love with anyone.
The biggest problem with Rewind is that people in their twenties (Céline was born in 1999 and now 22, Michiel was born in 1996, he is 26) claim the nineties that they have not experienced at all. It is therefore not surprising that there are errors in Rewind. In 1996, the Spice Girl hype was just getting started on her. It was in the summer and the second half of that year that the girl group broke through. In this film we see that Sporty-J (Anaïs Jansen) is already a big fan and has a poster of the group. The soundtrack includes the beautiful You by Ten Sharp, Pump up the jam by Technotronic and Morgenstimmung by Edvard Grieg.
Furthermore, the picture states that boys did not play football with girls at school. these young people give the current youth a wrong image. I myself was 16 in 1996. We had mixed PE among other things, so together with the girls from our class. From a technical point of view, it is strange that Céline’s smartphone will last from 2022 to 1996, but not back. During the computer science lesson that Paul Peeters gives (Louis Thyssen, we think it’s nice that his father Peter plays the 2022 version of this character), it also appears that some students are very quick with the online world and computers. That too is little. In 1996, only 70 million PCs were sold worldwide. Myself, I first got to know the internet in 1998 when I was 18… To give you an idea, we got on electric typewriters in high school (1993).
We also see Céline playing a few videos in 1996 on her smartphone. You will also see the Tiktok logo. That is impossible since she cannot make a (Wi-Fi) connection with her device. Sure, she could show videos from the smartphone, but then that logo would not be on it. 1996 is still the time of 2G. Mobile internet has only been around since 1998. Smartphones did not exist yet – which Rewind also correctly states – you could actually text mobiles, make calls, listen to music, play games and use them as alarm clocks. That thing didn’t do more than that.
< Bert Hertogs >
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