Loft (2008 film)

Loft
Directed by	Erik Van Looy
Produced by	Hilde De Laere
Written by	Bart De Pauw
Starring	Jan Decleir Filip Peeters Veerle Baetens Matthias Schoenaerts
Music by	Wolfram de Marco
Cinematography	Danny Elsen
Edited by	Philippe Ravoet
Production company	Woestijnvis
Distributed by	Independent Films
Release dates	22 October 2008 (2008-10-22) (Belgium)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Belgium
Language	Dutch
Budget	€3.2 million

Loft is a 2008 Belgian erotic mystery film directed by Erik Van Looy and written by Bart De Pauw, starring an ensemble cast of notable Flemish actors.

Plot

Five married men share ownership of an upmarket loft, which they use to discreetly meet their respective mistresses. When the body of a murdered woman is found in that loft, the men begin to suspect each other of having committed the gruesome crime, as they are the only ones with keys to the premises. Through flashbacks, which are intertwined by scenes from the present, the story is unravelled.

Cast

• Koen De Bouw as Chris Van Outryve
• Filip Peeters as Vincent Stevens
• Matthias Schoenaerts as Filip Willems
• nl as Luc Seynaeve
• nl as Marnix Laureys
• Veerle Baetens as Ann Marai
• nl as Barbara Stevens
• Marie Vinck as Sarah Delporte
• Jan Decleir as Ludwig Tyberghein

Production

Portions of the movie were shot in Ostend in January 2008. The building where the loft is situated is in Antwerp, next to the river Scheldt. A teaser trailer was released in May.

Reception

By 19 February 2009, Loft was the most successful Flemish film ever at the box office with at the time 1,082,480 visitors, passing the previous record holder, Stijn Coninx' Koko Flanel.

Remake

Main article: The Loft (2014 film)

In 2011, Van Looy began production on an American remake of Loft. The remake stars Karl Urban (who replaced Patrick Wilson), James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, and Schoenaerts (reprising his role from the original) and was released theatrically on January 30, 2015.

External links

• Loft at IMDb
• Teaser trailer
• Trailer