Julie Keeps Quiet


Julie Keeps Quiet is a 2024 psychological drama film, directed by Leonardo Van Dijl and written by Van Dijl and Ruth Becquart. It stars Tessa Van den Broeck, Ruth Becquart, Koen De Bouw, Claire Bodson and Laurent Caron.
It had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Critics' Week section on 18 May 2024, where it won the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution and SACD Award. The film was chosen as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

Premise

At an elite tennis academy, star player Julie's tennis coach Jeremy falls under investigation and is suspended. All of the team players are encouraged to speak up, but Julie chooses to remain silent.

Cast

Production

In March 2023, it was announced Leonardo Van Dijl would direct the film, from a screenplay he wrote alongside Ruth Becquart, with Les Films du Fleuve set to produce. The Dardenne brothers serve as co-producers, while Florian Zeller and Naomi Osaka serve as an executive producers under their Blue Morning Pictures and Hana Kuma banners, respectively.

Release

It had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Critics' Week section on 18 May 2024. It also screened at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2024.
It was released in Belgium on 16 October 2024, by Paradiso Films. In October 2024, Film Movement acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film. It was released in the United States on 28 March 2025. It is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2025, by Curzon Film.

Reception

David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a B writing: "This impressive debut feature, cold as a crypt and yet enormously sensitive all at once, is never framed like a mystery, or at least not like the mystery that you might expect from its premise." Guy Lodge of Variety described the film as "a tense, taut, and artfully hushed debut feature", while Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian named it as his Film of the Week, awarding it four stars out of five and calling it "a gripping study in dysfunction and repression."