Dansen op de Vulkaan (2014)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 81 minuten / 84 minuten (blu-ray)
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Adriënne Wurpel
Stars: Nils Verkooijen and Mouna Goeman Borgesius
IMDb score:
5,9 (315)
Releasedate: 30 October 2014
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Dansen op de Vulkaan plot
"Later starts now"
Maarten (Nils Verkooijen) is an ordinary boy of 16. After school he likes to hang out in the park with friends, listen to music, play games with his best friend Stefan (Bas van Prooijen) and go to the dance school as often as possible. There he prefers to dance with Roxanne (Gina van Os). Hardly anyone, especially Roxanne, should know that Maarten has a chronic illness; a serious form of metabolic disease that prevents him from growing old. Because despite his illness and concerned parents, Maarten wants to fully enjoy life and participate in everything. As his body continues to fail, he realizes that he may have to give up dancing…
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Reviews & comments
Elineloves
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- 24073 messages
- 3639 votes
Too bad, it didn't do much for me. It all happened too fast and there was too much of it on the surface to really affect me. The bond with his parents was difficult to portray and the acting was quite substandard.
Although the disease is of course terrible enough, I thought it was rolled over too quickly, especially in the beginning. It is not at all clear what exactly his chronic illness entails. He is sick, has to take his pills or he will get even sicker. Only towards the end did I sympathize with Maarten a little more. The struggle that Maarten continues to find himself in "I can't do what others can, but I do it anyway because I want to belong" was quite a lot of the same.
The ending gives you the feeling that you have watched an information film, but you have actually seen little. If you wanted to broach such a theme with young people, it could have been done in a different way.
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Ebenezer Scrooge
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- 2150 messages
- 3092 votes
You would think that in a film with a lot of dancing, at least a few people would be able to dance reasonably well, but that is not at all the case in Dancing on the Volcano. Probably because it's only white people. Absolutely no one in this film can dance properly, the leading actor perhaps dances the worst of all, what a stiff man. A mother who just whines. The way she rails against her son in front of the school principal, you must have a mother like that. That whining alone would make you sick. It can all be thought up in five minutes, such a bullshit story.
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Shadowed
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- 11670 messages
- 6867 votes
There was a period in which actor Nils Verkooijen constantly appeared in all kinds of youth dramas, but now that he has turned 26, that seems to be over. I thought almost all of his films were around the same level and Dancing on the Volcano hits that line more or less exactly. For a Dutch film, I didn't think the acting was bad at all, but the script was very tired and the execution clichéd. A low point was the predictable finale in which Verkooijen collapses on that stage. The world of Dutch teenagers is also depicted in a rather clumsy (but secretly accurate) way. A running time of 81 minutes is surprisingly short for a film like this, but the minutes are used optimally. There's a lot going on and, fortunately, intrusive messaging is skillfully avoided, making it a pretty smooth experience. Fellow user Ebenezer Scrooge pointed out the striking fact 4 years ago (and I can only support that) that few people can actually dance well in a film that revolves around the concept in question, but that it really struck me as well. Afterwards, the question remains whether this film has done any justice to people who have metabolic disease. With this unsurprising effect, I am inclined to say no, but each person can decide that for themselves.
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