Maidentrip (2013)

• Year: 2013
• Released: 10 Mar 2013
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 3 wins & 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2555268/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/maidentrip
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/maidentrip
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Dutch, English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
• Runtime: 82 min
• Writer: N/A
• Director: Jillian Schlesinger
• Cast: Dick Dekker, Kim Dekker, Laura Dekker
• Keywords: biography, woman director,

	7.5/10
	70/100
	83% – Critics
	78% – Audience

Maidentrip Storyline

Born on a boat and raised in shipyards, Laura Dekker grew up with one dream: to sail around the world alone. At thirteen, her daring plot sparked resistance from Dutch authorities and a global storm of media scrutiny. A year later, she won the right to set sail. Now, far from land, family, and unwanted attention, Laura spends her pivotal teenage years exploring the world alone in search of freedom, adventure, and lost childhood dreams. Jillian Schlesinger’s debut feature amplifies Laura’s brave, defiant voice through a mix of Laura’s own video and voice recordings at sea and intimate vérité footage from locations including the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, Australia, and South Africa.

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Maidentrip Movie Reviews

571st Review – Inspiring and Wonderful

This extraordinary documentary is a winner. Laura Dekker’s story is one not just for marine enthusiasts but for everyone. It has the potential to inspire through its simple acknowledgment that boundaries are imposed by others and not by ourselves.

The documentary is mainly just Laura and her boat, Guppy. It reminded this reviewer a lot of the same feeling as Redford’s superb All is Lost, and is certainly way better than many other ocean sailing films and documentaries made at huge expense. Maidentrip is simple, clear, very well-edited, with some clever graphics, and it makes for a very good watch indeed.

Above all, this is a film that you wish would be shown to Laura’s age group – it demonstrates beyond doubt that allowed the chance they really can be an amazing generation.

One of the most underrated documentaries ever?

I actually watched this reluctantly because someone wanted to see it, and ended up loving it. Not for the plot – there really is no plot (documentaries do that at times) except for her voyage, and the events leading up to it. To me it was just amazing that a young girl could do such an adventure alone, while others of her age were much more worried about how many followers they had on Twitter.

Much of the photography sucks (not like a cell phone is a real professional camera) – but that also adds to the feeling of realism, and pushes home the fact that there were no followers, no camera crews around – she was totally on her own. Unlike so many of the pseudo-documentaries this one is not filled with fake drama.

Pancakes for Neptune

Just saw this at Hot Docs in Toronto last night. If you want to know what sailing around the world is like, this is the movie for you. Not so long ago, we didn’t have the technology to make filming a journey like this so easy. We are shown a pretty complete set of film documenting the various legs of the journey, from sunny becalmed days, to hair raising stormy seas rounding South Africa.

I guess like everyone I wondered how someone so young could make such a journey. We follow the back story of Laura’s life as she spends her first 5 years at sea around New Zealand and as a very young girl helping her single dad restore their boat, the Guppy. When you see her on the boat sailing, you immediately grasp that this person is at one with the boat and with the sea and any doubts disappear. The boat is exactly made to order, everything in its place, strong, simple. Restoring and basically rebuilding the boat from scratch was probably the best thing for someone undertaking such a journey. You must be totally aware of absolutely everything on a boat, how it works, and how to repair it.

This doc reminded me of a film I saw about the Golden Globe race in 1968, called Deep Water. Laura refers to Bernard Moitessier and how he fell in love with the sailing and forgot about the race he was on, continuing on into the south pacific.

The animation sequences showing the path of the boat on various charts of the world are very imaginatively done, you get a real sense of the journey. What a way to see our beautiful planet and all the various life forms.