The pyromaniac at the mental hospital calls himself Vronsky, which is also the name of one of the main characters in Anna Karenina, a book which Vronsky is seen reading on multiple occasions. In the book, Vronsky and Anna Karenina are lovers.
Tabula Rasa means blank slate in Latin.
Tabula rasa (Latin)" blank slate" is a proponent of metaphysics, it's the opposing theory to innatism, which denotes that the human brain is created with certain inheraint knowledge like default knowledge or hard wired knowledge and tabula rasa is the theory that we are born with a blank slate and all knowledge is gain through perception via the senses. This theory gain traction from the empiricism view point of John locke
Veerle Baetens also acts in "the white queen" and in the Oscar nominee "The Broken Circle Breakdown"
Annemie D'Haeze (played by Veerle Baetens) drives a Saab 900 Sedan (4 doors).