Manuela Servais Movies
- 2008
Dutch director Miel van Hoogenbemt's gentle and slightly ironic romantic comedy A Perfect Match stars actor Jan Decleir (Antonia's Line) as Leopold Vossius, a widower who has retired from his longtime job as a schoolteacher. Faced with hours of solitude, Leopold accepts the aggressive prompting of a neighbor, Julien, to find a new wife on the internet. Numerous candidates crop up who all seem to be perfect matches for Leopold - making the choice of a mate supremely difficult. When Leopold begins going out with them, however, he discovers that all of the candidates have bizarre eccentricities. Throughout, he maintains that all he wants is a partner who can help him maintain his ordered and predictable lifestyle. Then a new housekeeper, Alina, turns up; to Leopold's horror, she not only destroys one prospective romantic liaison after another, but turns the house into a veritable bedlam of chaos, ruining everything she lays her hands on. In the process, Alina stirs up feelings in Leopold that neither can even begin to anticipate. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jan Decleir, Maria Popistasu, (more)
- 1999
The first feature film of Benoit Peeters is a mystery drama involving a young director, an exiled writer, and the woman who comes between them. Virgil Iancu (Florin Piersic) is a Romanian director who arrives in Paris to make a documentary about Constantin Dolinescu (Mihai Dinvale), a famous dissident writer who fled to France in 1987 and had begun to make a film before disappearing without a trace. For his research, Virgil interviews several people and collects various documents. All this evidence plus the extracts from the two versions of the unfinished film of the exiled writer lead him to believe that the man had a tormented character. Dolinescu also seems to have encountered several problems with his film project. The meeting of Virgil Iancu with an actress from Dolinescu's unfinished film and finally Dolinescu himself reveal not only the mystery surrounding Dolinescu but also the motive behind the young man's quest and the close links which bind him to the writer. Le Dernier Plan was screened in the Filmmakers of the Present section of the 1999 Locarno International Film Festival. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Florin Piersic, Jr., Manuela Servais, (more)
