Judge Bodil Backer (Bracha van Doesburgh) seemingly has it all: she’s a no-nonsense Judge and has a great home life with her doctor husband Milan (Nasrdin Dchar) and pre-teen son Ben (Damiano Incani).
At the start of director André van Duren’s Erotic Thriller, Bo is preparing for a girls weekend away with her best friend Isabel (Elise Schaap). They leave their husbands behind in Amsterdam, board a train for Bo’s family beach house in Belgium and outline plans for their weekend, which includes a burner phone, a large sum of money, and an expensive suite at a high-end hotel for Isabel.
Faithfully Yours has a fantastic central premise: a few times a year the two women use each other as cover while they cheat on their husbands. One woman will attend a lecture or visit a museum and snap photos to send to the husbands as an alibi.
At the start of director André van Duren’s Erotic Thriller, Bo is preparing for a girls weekend away with her best friend Isabel (Elise Schaap). They leave their husbands behind in Amsterdam, board a train for Bo’s family beach house in Belgium and outline plans for their weekend, which includes a burner phone, a large sum of money, and an expensive suite at a high-end hotel for Isabel.
Faithfully Yours has a fantastic central premise: a few times a year the two women use each other as cover while they cheat on their husbands. One woman will attend a lecture or visit a museum and snap photos to send to the husbands as an alibi.
- 10/3/2023
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
I'm not the biggest fan of Netflix. I don't want to get into a huge rant about it, but my biggest issue is that here in the Czech Republic, it takes the service forever to upload any new movies. Then, when something fresh finally drops, it's usually something starring Ryan Reynolds, Adam Sandler, or Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. I may be exaggerating, but that's what it feels like; too many mediocre Netflix originals and not much in the way of variety beyond the most mainstream of offerings.
To give Netflix its due, it does throw up some surprises from time to time. Given how subtitle-adverse many viewers in English-speaking countries can be, they took a bit of a chance on "Squid Game," but it went on to become a phenomenon and further advanced the cause of the booming Korean entertainment industry. Then there was "Cobra Kai," which sounded a lot...
To give Netflix its due, it does throw up some surprises from time to time. Given how subtitle-adverse many viewers in English-speaking countries can be, they took a bit of a chance on "Squid Game," but it went on to become a phenomenon and further advanced the cause of the booming Korean entertainment industry. Then there was "Cobra Kai," which sounded a lot...
- 5/27/2023
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Murder mysteries are hardly ever uninteresting. We all grew up reading Agatha Christie’s novels. There was no way that they would not keep us hooked. Murder mysteries have taken various forms over the years. While some were successful, many were duds. Knives Out was one of a kind, but then we also had a film called The Girl On The Train, which was quite the “train” wreck. If murder mysteries are not done well and do not tickle your brain to figure out who the murderer might be, they become a bore. Faithfully Yours dangerously treads the line between being interesting and predictable, at the same time. But why? Written and directed by André van Duren; and other writers include Paul Jan Nelissen and Elisabeth Lodeizen, Faithfully Yours centers around a woman’s disappearance from the scene of a crime and her friends and family trying to get to...
- 5/18/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Rating: 3/5
Writers: Martin Koolhoven (screenplay), Paul Jan Nelissen (screenplay)
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Cast: Martijn Lakemeier, Jamie Campbell Bower, Yorick van Wageningen
Talk about a poor weekend to call home.
Amidst names like The Hangover Part II, Kung Fu Panda, and the debut of this little tiny film you may have heard of, Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life, yet another film premiere this long Memorial Day Weekend, the WWII drama, Winter In Wartime. Opening in truly limited release, the film comes to us thanks to Danish director Martin Koolhoven, and is an adaptation of the beloved 1972 novel, penned by Jan Terlouw.
Read more on Theatrical Review: Winter In Wartime...
Writers: Martin Koolhoven (screenplay), Paul Jan Nelissen (screenplay)
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Cast: Martijn Lakemeier, Jamie Campbell Bower, Yorick van Wageningen
Talk about a poor weekend to call home.
Amidst names like The Hangover Part II, Kung Fu Panda, and the debut of this little tiny film you may have heard of, Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life, yet another film premiere this long Memorial Day Weekend, the WWII drama, Winter In Wartime. Opening in truly limited release, the film comes to us thanks to Danish director Martin Koolhoven, and is an adaptation of the beloved 1972 novel, penned by Jan Terlouw.
Read more on Theatrical Review: Winter In Wartime...
- 5/30/2011
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
Director: Martin Koolhoven Writers: Mieke de Jong, Martin Koolhoven, Paul Jan Nelissen (screenplay), Jan Terlouw (novel) Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower Winter in Wartime opens to a snowy scene in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II in 1945. A British fighter plane crashes several hundred yards away from Michiel van Beusekom's second story bedroom window. Moments later the English pilot is spotted by a German scout as he patrols the nearby forest, but the pilot quickly shots the German in the head while dangling from his deployed parachute in the trees above. Michiel and his family are in support of the resistance, but because Michiel's father Vader van Beusekom is the village Mayor, he must stay neutral to the bidding of the Germans in attempt to keep the towns people safe. In contrast to his father, Michiel adores his rebellious Uncle Ben who is active in...
- 5/28/2011
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Chicago – When life collides with history, human beings are often both the perpetrators and the victims. In the excellent film “Winter in Wartime,” a boy grows up quickly when confronted with the realities of that history and life in the last days of World War II.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
What happens to a childhood when the serious implications of wartime becomes the wolf at the door is the main premise of the film. There are bound to be secrets, distrust, intrigue and the unfortunate tragedy. The absorbing story has all of this, and is rendered by the sincere performances of a great cast, especially the young boy at the center of the conflict.
That boy is Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier), a 13 year old boy living in a Nazi-occupied Dutch village in the last months of World War II. His father (Raymond Thiry) is the mayor of the town, and appeases the occupiers in...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
What happens to a childhood when the serious implications of wartime becomes the wolf at the door is the main premise of the film. There are bound to be secrets, distrust, intrigue and the unfortunate tragedy. The absorbing story has all of this, and is rendered by the sincere performances of a great cast, especially the young boy at the center of the conflict.
That boy is Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier), a 13 year old boy living in a Nazi-occupied Dutch village in the last months of World War II. His father (Raymond Thiry) is the mayor of the town, and appeases the occupiers in...
- 4/1/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Reviewed by Chris Allsop
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
- 3/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Chris Allsop
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
- 3/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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