Joost van den Heuvel

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Favorite films

  • On Body and Soul
  • Virgin Mountain
  • Blue Is the Warmest Color
  • Nobody Knows

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  • Borgman

    ★★★

  • Holly

    ★★★★

  • The Piano

    ★★★

  • The Land of the Enlightened

    ★★★★

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  • Holly

    Holly

    ★★★★

    This film doesn't get the best ratings, so you'd say: ignore it. However, my intuition said: this might be an interesting film after all.

    Sometimes you just have to listen to your intuition.

    It's a slow, but (indeed) interesting film about the supernatural. Does such a thing exist? What does it do to people?

    The film (deliberately) doesn't answer the first question, and that's great. Let everyone have their own opinion.

    The second question is investigated extensively throughout the film.…

  • Keeper

    Keeper

    ★★★★½

    Keeper is a French drama about a 15-year-old couple, where the girl turns out to be pregnant.

    An English title for a French film does not happen often, but here it is very appropriate. The boy is a goalkeeper in his father's football team and he has a chance to play for a real club.

    Why am I talking about the boy? The girl is pregnant, right? That's right. But the focus of this film is mainly on the father…

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  • After Lucia

    After Lucia

    ★★★★★

    I can't think of any horror movies I ever saw that were as horrifying to watch as some scenes in this movie.

    I feel sick now.

    But if I have to be frank. This might just be one of the best movies I have ever seen, even if it was such a difficult watch.

    In the beginning I had no idea where the story was going. I guessed right about what had happened before, but the story actually went into…

  • The Second Mother

    The Second Mother

    ★★★★★

    Once upon a time you stumble upon a 'perfect' film. This most certainly is one.

    The story is about class differences. Not about its origins, but about the dynamics within a household, especially when you start to question unwritten social rules and expectations. It makes you wonder why people expect someone to behave in a certain (different) way, instead of treating them as an equal.

    It takes time for people to think differently, to change in a positive way. You…

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