Directed by:
Alex van WarmerdamScreenplay:
Alex van WarmerdamCinematography:
Marc FelperlaanComposer:
Vincent van WarmerdamCast:
Jack Wouterse, Annet Malherbe, Rudolf Lucieer, Loes Wouterson, Alex van Warmerdam, Veerle Dobbelaere, Theo van Gogh, Jacques Commandeur, Loes Luca (more)Plots(1)
Absurdist film about the experiences and especially the suppressed feelings of lust of the inhabitants of an archetypical Dutch new estate in the Dutch West during the summer of 1960. Winner of two Golden Calves in 1992. Just like his debut Abel (1986), Van Warmerdam's De noorderlingen won two Golden Calves. The director plays the spying mailman in a minimal new housing estate in 1960, with one street and one bus stop, shot in taut compositions. An absurdist world full of repressed feelings, with a sexually frustrated butcher, his venerated, fasting wife, an unfertile hunter and Theo van Gogh on a red moped. (Nederlands Film Festival)
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They say that in the Netherlands, Alex is a very successful director. But his absurdities didn’t have any success with me, which also applies to The Northerners, which is supposedly his most popular movie. And I’m not surprised. Its absurdity makes for an array of situations when I didn’t know whether to laugh or roll my eyes due to my incomprehension. The first half was funnier and it was leaning towards four stars, but then the second half got way more serious, trying to depict a few human traits; I’m not a huge fan of these radical jumps in movies. The result was neither a cat nor a dog; a catdog, just like the rest of Alex’s movies. I watched this for the Challenge Tour 2015.
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