Guusje van Tilborgh Movies
- 1991
In this romantic thriller, Rosa (Guusje van Tilborgh) runs a small hairdressing business. She is divorced and bored. Maybe that's why she takes such an interest in the strange long-haired and bearded man (Johan Leysen) who comes to her shop with a note from her ex-husband, requesting that she change his appearance with no questions asked. Whatever the reason, she is now entranced by him, and after his haircut she takes him to her bedroom for a night of passion. The next morning, however, he disappears without a trace. When Rosa meets another entirely respectable man (also Johan Leysen), whose looks are virtually identical to the man she barbered recently, she wonders if it is the same man. However, he too disappears before she can solve the mystery. She is not discouraged and continues to investigate. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Guusje van Tilborgh, Johan Leysen, (more)
- 1988
Felix (Rene van't Hof) is a popular and academically gifted student who has trouble meeting girls in this situation comedy. To stop rumors, he announces his engagement to a fashion model he has never met, then he begins pursuing the girl next door, who was engaged to be married but suddenly becomes available. Later, Felix and the fashion model meet for the first time and become intimate, and Felix is faced with a new set of problems as he quickly goes from being lonely, to juggling two desirable women at a time. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rene van't Hof, Joke Tjalsma, (more)
- 1987
This drama focuses on two case studies by the groundbreaking neurologist and cognitive scientist Alexander R. Luria, whose works gave so much impetus to another doctor-writer whose case stories have also served as a basis for films, Oliver Sacks (Awakenings). One of the doctor's patients is a professional memory expert (a mnemonist), a man whose ever-expanding amounts of remembered information can only be organized through the use of skillfully ordered associative techniques (e.g., red is the color of blood, blood runs through the heart, that redhead I just met has the name "Hart," which sounds like heart). When the neurologist takes on the case of a brain-damaged soldier who has lost the ability to speak, the techniques he used to help the mnemonist make sense of his store of data also help the soldier put together the skills needed to speak intelligibly again. Slow-paced and intellectual in its focus, this film is likeliest to be of interest to those already familiar with neurological issues. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hans Dagelet, Guusje van Tilborgh, (more)
This twisted black comedy is obsessed in turn with swans, twins, and decay. Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol) is involved in a swan-related car accident near the zoo. The accident kills two other women, the wives of two twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon). Alba is lucky enough to escape with one leg. Eventually her doctor also removes the other "because it was dangerous for the spine." Meanwhile, the Deuce brothers, as a result of losing their wives, have become fascinated with the decay of corpses, and they start making rather gruesome time-lapse films to examine the process more thoroughly. Both brothers become involved with Alba. Needless to say, this film may not appeal to everybody. ~ John Voorhees, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, (more)
- 1984
In this ostensible combination of a psychological drama and film noir, Pavel Mosz (Onno Molenkamp) has survived a KGB attempt at killing him off, after they frame him for a murder he did not commit. It seems Pavel is an emigre from Prague, a dissident the KGB would rather eliminate than tolerate. But after the failed murder attempt, Pavel suffers a case of amnesia -- and this time the KGB decides to provide him with a fabricated past to their own advantage and sets about to convince him to commit an assassination. Unfortunately, the script does not quite measure up to the good work in photography, musical score, and acting that do distinguish this first feature film by Jules van de Velde. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Onno Molenkamp, Guusje van Tilborgh, (more)
- 1984
Director Adriaan Ditvoorst indulges enough of his own inclinations in this somber, avant-garde pastische of symbols and events in the life of a supposedly sophisticated nonconformist to turn off most audiences, no matter what their artistic orientation. Lazlo (Thom Hoffman) is a loner who sits in meditation on top of an abandoned factory, takes heroin, paints surreal murals inside the same factory, and sneers at addicts and society in general. When he returns home to help out his handicapped mother who lives in a decrepit mansion, symbols abound like cherry blossoms on the usually bare tree in her yard. Even the striking camerawork, excellent technical credits, good acting and sonorous music cannot overcome the superficial nature of the symbolism, the scenes that lead nowhere, the occasional, misplaced sarcasm, and Ditvoorst's lack of concern for his audience. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thom Hoffman
- 1983
Gerard (Raymond van het Groenewoud) is a thirtysomething owner of an antique shop who would like to be a novelist, if he could only just sit down and start writing. Like others much younger than he, Gerard blames his parents for his failure and not even his beloved sister or a former mistress can change his downbeat mood. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Raymond Van Het Groenewoud
