Henriette Tol Movies

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

Maarten (Jeroen Krabbe) is a professor of cell biology who has devoted his life to his studies and teaching, to such an extent that he has never had a relationship with a woman. He lives at home with his invalid mother, and so far, life has been going along in its usual, puritanical, repressed way -- until he has a strange dream. According to the vision in the dream, unless he manages to start a sexual relationship with a woman within seven days, he will not live to see the eighth day. Worried and nagged onward by a persistent alter-ego (Krabbe again), Maarten begins to see the first light of liberation when tragedy strikes and his ailing mother dies. He is sad, but at the same time freed from the shackles she represented. Soon he meets an attractive woman, the seeds of desire are mutually nurtured, and it looks very much like Maarten may gain a jolly good reprieve from the grim reaper. This is director Ate De Jong's first film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi