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De Ontsnapping (2015)

Drama | 96 minutes
2,44 235 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 96 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Ineke Houtman

Stars: Isa Hoes, Edwin Jonker and Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen

IMDb score: 5,7 (680)

Releasedate: 30 April 2015

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De Ontsnapping plot

Julia doesn't feel anything anymore. She leaves her family to escape the daily grind. She wants to feel life, love, sex and again. While searching for herself, she discovers that a secret from her childhood still defines her life.

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moofyman

  • 73 messages
  • 137 votes

What an incredibly bad movie this was. Crookedly bad and Isa Hoes can't do much about that I'm afraid because even Rock Mayall couldn't get it right.

The book has only been followed broadly. Of course a movie is different from a book and it is difficult to portray someone's thoughts well, but what is it with script writers that they think they can make the story a bit better by giving the original book a completely different twist. In this film, the whole sense of escape with which the main character struggles has disappeared.

Letting go of the book was therefore not that difficult as the film had little resemblance to it.

The trauma of Julia's small genitals, her father's dilapidated real estate office, the red Supra-like Toyota that has been in her father's garage for years, the whole departure with saying goodbye, for Schiphol (!) just with her now religious mother past, the enormously striking and ugly exterior of the villa, the fact that she has no neighbors there and let alone an old acquaintance and no Flemish who is now a pill dealer, no sister on the phone, not a half-Dutch Romeo. It doesn't stop.

The scene with the pills and the dwarves is hilarious in the book. In the film just short, without finesse and without humor. Like telling a joke by just telling the punch line. You wish the screenwriter had taken a few pills.

In my opinion, facts are simply stated and worked to the end. No character development, nothing. The feeling from the book of the struggle that Julia still has in Portugal with the pinching ties of home, the whole why of the escape. It doesn't work out.

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ZeppelinNL

  • 19 messages
  • 894 votes

setback. To be fair, I haven't read the book, and that makes me look at the movie differently.

Isa Hoes plays a nice role in the film, is even humorous here and there, and her playing generally arouses interest. However, during the film I did not manage to really 'worry' about any of the characters. Not that this is so much due to the acting performances (the supporting role of Rik Mayall alone is worth 1* to me), but perhaps to the nature of the story itself. Maybe I'll just read the book, then my perspective will probably change. Now the story itself just didn't interest me. The flashbacks to her sick brother do not arouse any pity, and the way in which she herself experiences them during her time in Portugal, I find completely uninteresting.

But the film certainly has points that are good and/or interesting. The supporting role of Rik Mayall, with his fantastic British charisma, is already worth seeing for me.
The atmospheric images of Portugal are also charming.

Unfortunately, again not a great Dutch film (although it wasn't as bad as De Reünie). Perhaps in the autumn "Yes, I Want!" changes this

2.0*

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Elineloves

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Tasteless snack.

I expected it when I saw the trailer. I thought: That must be a movie for bored housewives who fantasize about escaping the daily grind and into a secret romance with a muscular macho. And yes, that target audience will love it.

Difficult to bond with the main characters. She is dissatisfied with her life, looking for "more" and clearly traumatized. Her "escape" feels forced. You must have sunk very deep and be in the pit if you leave your offspring without saying boo or bah. I didn't get that feeling with her. Julia was just a woman who is fed up with her dull, monotonous life and who thinks the grass is greener elsewhere. But no, another sentimental trauma has to be pushed through.

It will appeal to many 40+ mothers, recognizable things such as being dissatisfied with your sagging tea bags and your afterpregnancy flap that is still hanging from your belly, but for me it doesn't have to be. She just doesn't want to be likeable anywhere.

The biggest gripe is that Julia just isn't a nice woman. And Romeo is certainly nothing, what a cardboard character. I don't know if that's the case in the book, but I couldn't do anything with it. As a result, the film had no chance of success for me anyway.

Boring shit.

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