De Terugreis (2024)
Genre: Road movie / Comedy
Duration: 98 minuten
Alternative title: Memory Lane
Country:
Netherlands / Belgium
Directed by: Jelle de Jonge
Stars: Martin van Waardenberg, Leny Breederveld and Ivan Pecnik
IMDb score:
7,4 (2.094)
Releasedate: 21 March 2024
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Actors and actresses
Maartje Vermeiden
Jaap Vermeiden
Jérémy
Autoduwer
L'homme ivre sur la place
Garagist
Jonge Jaap
L'amoureuse
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Jaap [Martin van Waardenberg] is a grouch who prefers not to deviate from his daily routine and stays indoors as much as possible. That becomes increasingly difficult when the behavior of his wife Maartje [Leny Breederveld] becomes more and more erratic. When she keeps insisting that she wants to go to Spain to say goodbye to an old friend, Jaap only changes after much insistence. He doesn't dare drive on the highway, so Jaap and Maartje embark on an extra-long journey through Belgium and France. Jaap soon realizes that he is losing part of Maartje. But he also finds something he thought he had lost. In Maartje, but also in herself. The first half hour of this road movie is a bit slow, also because Waardenberg is not an actor who easily wins the audience's sympathy. But partly due to Breederveld's disarming performance and the believable way in which Van Waardenberg unfreezes, this has a number of fun and moving moments and a simple, effective ending.
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hvdriel
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- 397 messages
- 357 votes
A Dutch film with a current 60+ subject (dementia), in which the dialogues are good and the acting is convincing.
And that was it. The scenario spreads out the events in one flat pattern, in which - apart from the ending - there are no highs or lows to be seen.
Before the return journey begins, we have passed a boring half hour, during which you wonder whether no one - except everyone in the cinema - has noticed that the woman has dementia.
And then the return journey, a succession of predictable lame jokes where laughter and tears just won't budge.
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Anita_N
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- 1 messages
- 1 votes
I thought this was SUCH an unDutch good movie. Wow. I do think that people in their late 70s are not as unworldly as these characters. But I do understand it. The world IS also a fucking weird place when you look around you. Anyone who doesn't see that is just sleeping. This is also a film with a lot of tenderness and a sense of humor. I had a good laugh and yes: at one point tears actually flowed down my face.
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