eg-narold Reviews

Those Were the Days (2014)

Nice comedy

[6/10 · 12 April 2014]

Nice comedy after a most successful series with the same name on television.

Some fragments are really comic but the film is not a jewel. Why not? The casting is the problem; not the story nor the acting. The stepmother of Jaap Kooijman is not the woman with a strong dominant character which was needed for the role. The yoga-teacher is not the womanizer that the maker of the film wanted us to believe in. The romance between him and Nel is rather silly and unbelievable. Nevertheless, the film is an nice comedy with a good storyline. I recommend visiting.

A Single Man (2009)

aesthetic and incorruptible

[6/10 · 5 February 2010]

This nice movie I saw in the International Film Festival Rotterdam on the 6th february 2010. It was rated 8th best film of the festival out of hundreds of films up to now. I can agree, although to my opinion the film contains a bit too much aesthetic exhibitionism. It has a lot of true love and suffering from a process of assimilation. However it was too much aesthetic to be fascinating, slightly overdone. The conversations were rather boring now and then, with few exceptions. It was the image that counted - the form and the perfection. A perfect product is not always impressive. This movie is worth seeing but not a must.