“The child Dorothée and the free love of squatters”

Dorothée van den Berghe emphasizes that My Queen Karo is not literally her life story. “The film is a fiction-wrapped condensation of the entire period. I wanted to make my experiences universal. Children also have loyalty problems now, because many parents are divorced. They also live in two worlds. The difference is that my film takes place in a commune, behind closed doors, which makes the situation more extreme.” Extreme is indeed the right word for the living situation in My Queen Karo, where all privacy has been abolished. In the house are the walls literally destroyed, because everyone has to live together in one large room. Isolation is bourgeois. (Het Parool)