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Tag Archives: Netherlands
Isabelle (2011) Ben Sombogaart, Halina Reijn, Tineke Caels, Wim Opbrouck

A famous actress finds herself captured by a morbidly deranged paintress. Read More »
My Queen Karo (2009) Dorothée Van Den Berghe, Anna Franziska Jaeger, Déborah François, Matthias Schoenaerts

Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. Read More »
The Rainbowmaker (2008) Nana Dzhordzhadze, Merab Ninidze, Anja Antonowicz, Chulpan Khamatova

The Salzlipp twins grow up without their father. The boy and the girl are convinced he Read More »
Summer Heat / Zomerhitte (2008) Monique van de Ven, Sophie Hilbrand, Waldemar Torenstra, Jeroen Willems

14 months after loosing his partner while making a UNICEF documentary in Afghanistan Read More »
Mind Shadows (1988) Hersenschimmen

Hersenschimmen (“Mind Shadows”) does not provide its audience with any easy escape. Read More »
Springtime in a Small Town / Xiao cheng zhi chun (2002) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin

Liyan and Yuwen live in post-war torpor, childless but with Liyan’s school-aged sister. Read More »
Rosenstrasse (2003) Margarethe von Trotta, Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Svea Lohde

When Ruth’s husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. Read More »
Pallieter (1976) Roland Verhavert, Eddie Brugman, Jacqueline Rommerts, Sylvia de Leur

In this film version of the Dutch-language classic (‘heimat’-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans Read More »
Nightwatching (2007) Peter Greenaway, Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle

The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt Read More »