Lineke Rijxman Movies
A strong-willed Dutch woman recalls her life in this uplifting picture that won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy) is an elderly woman who wakes up one morning and realizes that this is the last day of her life. She begins to tell her story in flashback, beginning with her arrival home to the family farm after World War II with her daughter, Danielle (Els Dottermans). For the next fifty years, a variety of colorful characters come and go on the farm. Danielle becomes a painter, and decides she wants a child but no husband, so Antonia arranges the proper donation. Danielle giving birth to Therese (Veerle van Overloop), who laters has her own child, Sarah (Thyrza Ravesteijn), also without virtue of a husband. Antonia and her descendants come to symbolize the freedom of independent females, with little need for men in their lives. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
- Starring:
- Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jan Decleir, (more)
- 1995
Two brothers lead an interesting double life in this Dutch drama. Leen and Albert lead normal dull lives during the day. They are married to sisters. At night the brothers step out of their lives and hit the streets. There they quietly follow people and observe their actions. They take careful notes about the way people change in the night. Some of the changes the see are routine, and some, quite bizarre. These observations form the basis of interesting conversations. The brother's daily lives do have one quirk. Leen has been in love with Albert's wife, Paula, from the start. The gracious Albert allows Leen 15 minutes per day to pretend he is Paula's wife while his own wife takes her morning shower. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1989
This avant-garde film by Frans van de Staak follows four persons (each played by two different actors alternating in the roles) as they rush about the streets of Amsterdam, each of them extremely busy doing something. One highlight of the film is the reading of several of the poems of celebrated poet Gerrit Kouwenaar. Despite its severely experimental style and deliberate storylessness, this film was sufficiently inventive and rhythmically interesting to receive a warm reception from some critics. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Thom Hoffman, Olga Zuiderhoek, (more)
- 1984
- R
Released in Holland as Gebroken Spiegels, Broken Mirrors is set for the most part in an Amsterdam brothel. Lineke Ripman and Henriette Tol play two whores who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Their story is counterpointed by a subplot involving housewife Edda Barends, who is kidnapped by one of the brothel's customers; as Barends starves to death, her captor takes photographs of her last days on earth. Somehow her demise is meant to be as much a "liberation" as Ripman and Tol's refusal to continue plying their trade. Throughout Broken Mirrors, the male characters are depicted as murderers, both literal and spiritual. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lineke Rijxman, Henriette Tol, (more)
- 1981
- PG
Made for theatrical release by a Dutch TV production firm, this stars Renee Soutendijk in the title role. The Girl is a Dutch wartime resistance leader, who is killed before the film proper gets under way. Through the reminiscences of her best friend, we are given every detail of the Girl's life, loves and dreams (she was a sheltered college student at the outbreak of the War). We also learn what inspired the Girl to become a sang froid assassin of Nazi informers. Director Ben Verbong collaborated on the screenplay with Peter de Vos, author of the factual book (Theun de Vries) upon which the film was based. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Renée Soutendijk, Peter Tuinman, (more)
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