Pijnstillers (2014)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 98 minuten
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Tessa Schram
Stars: Gijs Blom, Susan Radder and Birgit Schuurman
IMDb score:
6,5 (756)
Releasedate: 25 September 2014
Pijnstillers plot
Casper lives alone with his mother. He has a passion for music and plays the piano as much as possible. He never knew his father, but when his mother becomes seriously ill, he sets out on a quest to find him...
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
In my experience, the film adaptations of Carry Slee's children's books by the Schram family vary considerably in quality. This one, while watchable, isn't one of the best. The main drawback is that the story has too many subthemes. While each one is captivating in its own right, overkill is detrimental here as well, as it undermines the film's balance. Nevertheless, it's a perfectly acceptable directorial debut from Dave Schram's daughter Tessa.
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Filiezi
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- 13 messages
- 92 votes
I always love Carry Slee films, but I'm not quite as enthusiastic this time. I thought Birgit Schuurman's role was great, but it could have been developed better in my opinion. The lead actor is okay, but not great. There are far too many stories in one film. Illness, death, discrimination, being used by a good friend, the dream of becoming a musician, winning a girl, the search for her biological father, and so on. So much, so nothing really comes together and you never truly feel the emotion. Birgit's role was deserved, and it was a great opportunity to show what it does to a teenager. I have to say, I always like Kees Boot, but I don't understand exactly what he and Sophie added to the film. Also, I don't understand the ending. How can the whole orchestra suddenly play Indian Summer without having rehearsed? And how ridiculous is it that he travels to Prague himself and is suddenly allowed to replace that other boy. No, it is a film that is easy to watch, but apart from the beautiful mother-son relationship there is little in it.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Casper van Riel [Gijs Blom] is a young pianist who aspires to be a composer. But his audition for a youth orchestra doesn't go according to plan; his childhood friend Sofie [Lara Leijs], with whom he's secretly in love, uses him as a front to secretly date Saïd [Anour Annali], and his mother [Birgit Schuurman] turns out to have cancer. Fortunately, in a flash, Casper manages to reconnect with his father [Raymon Thiry], whom he's never known, and he hooks up with Anouk [Susan Radder], the orchestra's nightingale. Based on the novel of the same name by Carry Slee, it's clearly aimed at teenagers who've never read a book—or seen a movie—because it's terribly clichéd, complete with a truly cringe-inducing finale. Blom is utterly colorless; only Schuurman and Thiry try to make something of it. In vain, of course.
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