A good movie

To be honest, I had no idea what this movie was about but since I have a weak spot for Georgina Verbaan, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I’m pretty sure that my wife didn’t expect this movie to be so heavy when she picked it up yesterday evening. Indeed, as far as I’m concerned, with its title and poster, I was actually expecting another harmless average Dutch comedy. Well, it turned out to be something entirely different, that’s for sure. Indeed, it was in fact a really hardcore psychological drama after all and, for a while, I thought it would be some sort of Woody Allen kind of situation (which would have been already messed-up enough) but, eventually, this nightmarish situation turned out to be so much worse than I anticipated. Still, to be honest, the way the whole thing was constructed actually slightly bothered me. Indeed, this back-and-forth in time, probably the most overused and annoying gimmick nowadays, had very little artistic merit and was obviously used here to delay this huge revelation. As a result, Sonne, the adult version of Willemke, was a rather frustrating character not because of Abbey Hoes who did deliver a solid performance but because she refused to talk about what actually happened to her to anyone. Of course, you could argue that it made sense for this character because she was so heavily traumatized but I think the main reason she didn’t talk was because they wanted to keep this secret as long as possible. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, I won’t deny that the whole thing really did hit me like a sledgehammer, it was a powerful, even heart-breaking, drama and it’s definitely worth a look, at least, if you can handle such heavy material.