Zwanger & Co (2022)
Genre: Romance / Comedy
Duration: 113 minuten
Alternative title: Pregnant & Co
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Johan Nijenhuis
Stars: Lieke van Lexmond, Waldemar Torenstra and Maaike Martens
IMDb score:
5,8 (567)
Releasedate: 7 July 2022
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Zwanger & Co plot
Thirty-six-year-old single obstetrician Merel consciously chooses to get pregnant without having the perfect partner. At the same time, her father Piet, in his sixties, becomes a father again and her twenty-three-year-old niece Eva is also happily expecting. All these parents-to-be then face a variety of trials.
Reviews & comments
Ebenezer Scrooge
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- 2150 messages
- 3092 votes
It strikes me that Nijenhuis holds back in his most recent films, in contrast to his earlier films. It's all not so very hysterical anymore and especially the acting is a bit more subdued. Not that that makes it any better or anything. The only one who does not participate is strangely enough the most experienced actor of the bunch: Thom Hoffman. Because it makes me exaggerate a lot: that contrived supposedly funny walk, like some mean crook from a 1970s children's series.
Nijenhuis's films excel in bad taste, but not the kind of b-movie bad taste à la Ed Wood that can grow into a true cult film, because it's all ugly to me and it will still be that in 50 years. The light is ugly, as if too few lights have been turned on. The clothing (blouses with prints), but also the decors hurt your eyes: a scene shot in front of a row of garages, who the hell chooses those locations? Or a consulting room with those slats from the '90s, not to peep into. It is all very similar to the Dutch film as it was in the seventies, early eighties (Spetters, De Bende Van Hiernext), people on the street with caravans, rubbish everywhere, a croquette from the wall ... but then very dull . At our camp... something like that.
And that Beter Bed indeed. Jan Wolkers once said about the film adaptation of his book Turks Fruit that he thought it was 75% a masterpiece. Among other things, he found the surreptitious advertising in the film abhorrent. And he was right. In the scene in which Olga and Erik cycle through the city as a newlywed couple, the brand of the bicycle is briefly zoomed in on: Batavus.
And that takes less than 3 seconds, here almost 5 minutes.
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xxERWINxx
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- 1964 messages
- 1016 votes
Watched it today on Blu-ray, I mainly watched it because Lieke van Lexmond played in it, but it wasn't all that good.
Lieke plays a midwife who also wants a baby, but just when she has found a donor and is pregnant, she meets a nice man...
Don't expect any action or suspense, it's just a movie about getting pregnant and various storylines about mothers who are pregnant / want or have children.
So not suitable for a second time, I prefer to watch films such as Costa, In Love with Ibiza and Sneekweek, for example, where there is a story and something happens.
This film also lasted almost 2 hours, which is actually far too long for this type of film.
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mrklm
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- 12367 messages
- 10458 votes
The combination of the pitiful title and Johan Nijenhuis, the king of Dutch popcorn pulp, does not bode well, but the screenplay by Aliefka Bijlsma and Jacqueline Epskamp largely ignores the lurking lame jokes and opts for a striking (and refreshing) serious approach to the topic of parenthood. Annet [Maaike Martens] has raised three children with Theo [Matteo van der Grijn], but despite her age she still wants to become a mother; her younger sister Merel [Lieke van Lexmond] is a midwife who considers IV treatment two years after the end of a long-term relationship and their father Piet [Thomas Hoffman], a career tiger who was rarely there for his daughters, is forced into active parenthood when his ambitious second wife [Caroline Dijkhuizen] goes to the US for a few months to realize her ambitions and their Czech nanny [Roos Wiltink] suddenly decides to return to her home country. The storylines are predictable, but Martens and Hoffman in particular provide their characters with a sympathy that is not on paper. The scenes in which Piet bonds with his daughter are disarming.
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