Anneke Blok Movies
- 2008
Tiramisu concerns an accountant whose newest client changes his life. As he investigates the depleted funds of a larger-than-life actress, he discovers that her complicated personal life holds a certain fascination for him. She wants nothing more than to hold on to her beloved boat, and soon the accountant begins to neglect his own family in order to figure out how to make this happen for the actress. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anneke Blok, Jacob Derwig, (more)
- 2008
As helmed by Martin Koolhoven (Het Zuiden), the Dutch-language saga Oorlogswinter stars Martijn Lakemeier as Michiel van Beusekom, a young man who becomes involved in the Dutch resistance during the final winter of World War II. Though this represents a heroic move on the boy's part, the experience ultimately leads to complete disillusionment, as it brings Michiel face to face with the realization that during times of war, good and evil are actually intertwined. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick Van Wageningen, (more)
- 2002
Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen's Familie (Family) concerns itself with a family reunion. Because Els (Petra Laseur) is dying from cancer, her husband, Jan (Bram van der Vlugt), arranges a vacation for them as well as their daughter, Bibi (Marisa van Eyle); her author husband; their son, Nico (Mark Reitman); and his wife. They confront each other about unpleasant issues like Els' infidelity and Nico's bitter resentments about his childhood. Family was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Petra Laseur, Bram van der Vlugt, (more)
Dutch filmmaker Paula van der Oest spins this frothy comedy about the ends to which three sisters would go to keep possession of the family's summer home in Portugal. When their 32-year-old brother, Nino, announces his engagement with his younger girlfriend, Bo, his three siblings react not with congratulatory happiness but with shocked indignation instead. For one thing, Nino was gay for most of his teens and twenties; and another, if he gets married then he inherits the summer villa. The three sisters are united by two traits: they each have vivid interior fantasy worlds -- often involving having sex with the other's husbands -- and they each dream of retiring to Portugal. Starving artist Wanda wants to open a gallery there, while writer Sonja dreams of living there with her husband. Michelle, the eldest, wants to flee her hectic domestic life as a housewife and mother to open a home for war orphans. Together, they cheerfully connive to undermine the engagement, as Bo invites them to Portugal to help plan the wedding. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sylvia Poorta, Anneke Blok, (more)
- 1996
A widowed Latvian father's quest for a much-loved Dutch pen pal, whom he hasn't heard from in three decades, provides the basis of this comedy-drama. The father is accompanied by his traumatized and mute eight-year-old son whom he had to kidnap from a Riga hospital. Together, the two flee towards Holland where the father Yuris hopes to find his long-lost friend Marie, whom he remembers as a great beauty. During the long journey, father and son have several funny adventures, many of which occur because neither father nor son speak much Dutch. They finally arrive at Marie's door empty-handed. What they find, gives them little hope, for the lithe young idealist of Yuris' dreams has become middle-aged and cynical. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1990
Bert (Theu Boermans) is a stolid, hard-working Dutch farmer. Like many of his kind, he is suspicious of innovation and stylishness. A widower, while he is attending an agricultural exposition in the city, he meets, and is photographed by Roos (Annke Blok), a woman painter. Their relationship blossoms from there, and he has a romance with this (to him) very alien woman, an exemplar of much that he distrusts. She comes to visit him and his son in the countryside, and their affair continues. Eventually, their differences give rise to a quarrel which has tragic consequences. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Theu Boermans, Anneke Blok, (more)
