Character (1997)
(Karakter)
Country: NL
Technical: col 122m
Director: Mike van Diem
Cast: Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt, Betty Schuurman, Tamar van den Dop
Synopsis:
An illegitimate child struggles to better himself by becoming a lawyer, despite the efforts to hinder him of his father, the local bailiff.
Review:
An extraordinary drama of social self-improvement, set at the turn of the century; like a 1930s Warner Bros biopic tinged with a more Kafkaesque taste for darkness. It seems to be getting somewhere but never quite succeeds in being more than efficiently grim. Watch out for the most remarkable chin seen in the movies outside gothic horror, that or a classy Brando impersonator, in the character of the lawyer colleague.
(Karakter)
Country: NL
Technical: col 122m
Director: Mike van Diem
Cast: Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt, Betty Schuurman, Tamar van den Dop
Synopsis:
An illegitimate child struggles to better himself by becoming a lawyer, despite the efforts to hinder him of his father, the local bailiff.
Review:
An extraordinary drama of social self-improvement, set at the turn of the century; like a 1930s Warner Bros biopic tinged with a more Kafkaesque taste for darkness. It seems to be getting somewhere but never quite succeeds in being more than efficiently grim. Watch out for the most remarkable chin seen in the movies outside gothic horror, that or a classy Brando impersonator, in the character of the lawyer colleague.
(Karakter)
Country: NL
Technical: col 122m
Director: Mike van Diem
Cast: Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt, Betty Schuurman, Tamar van den Dop
Synopsis:
An illegitimate child struggles to better himself by becoming a lawyer, despite the efforts to hinder him of his father, the local bailiff.
Review:
An extraordinary drama of social self-improvement, set at the turn of the century; like a 1930s Warner Bros biopic tinged with a more Kafkaesque taste for darkness. It seems to be getting somewhere but never quite succeeds in being more than efficiently grim. Watch out for the most remarkable chin seen in the movies outside gothic horror, that or a classy Brando impersonator, in the character of the lawyer colleague.