• 177.896 movies
  • 12.201 shows
  • 33.969 seasons
  • 646.886 actors
  • 9.369.937 votes
Avatar
Profile
 
banner banner

Hokwerda's Kind (2024)

Drama | 124 minutes
2,58 24 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 124 minuten

Alternative title: Hokwerda's Child

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Boudewijn Koole

Stars: Kevin Janssens, Sanne-Samina Hanssen and Elsie de Brauw

IMDb score: 5,5 (88)

Releasedate: 24 October 2024

US
UK

This movie is not available on US streaming services.

JustWatch

Hokwerda's Kind plot

Lin (25), a long-distance swimmer, meets Henri (40) and falls madly in love. A passionate love affair inevitably drags her deeper and deeper. Will she be strong enough to face her demons?

Reviews & comments


avatar

Guest

  • messages
  • votes

Let op: In verband met copyright is het op MovieMeter.nl niet toegestaan om de inhoud van externe websites over te nemen, ook niet met bronvermelding. Je mag natuurlijk wel een link naar een externe pagina plaatsen, samen met je eigen beschrijving of eventueel de eerste alinea van de tekst. Je krijgt deze waarschuwing omdat het er op lijkt dat je een lange tekst hebt geplakt in je bericht.

* denotes required fields.

Pay attention! You cannot change your username afterwards.

* denotes required fields.
avatar van Flipman

Flipman

  • 7109 messages
  • 1141 votes

Content-wise strong, but too long for what you get in return. It won't be due to the acting performances, because they are rock solid. That also applies to the way the story is established. The resolution is nice, but still comes a bit too late.

Difficult, but I can't get higher than a 3 out of 5. Read here a little more extensively why.

dutch flagTranslated from Dutch · View original

avatar van mrklm

mrklm

  • 11374 messages
  • 9897 votes

30-year-old top swimmer Lin [Sanne-Samina Hanssen] prepares herself with her trainer [Nabil Mallat] for an attempt to swim to the English coast faster than ever before. During the day she works in a clothing store and there she meets the attractive Henri [Kevin Janssens]. For 45 minutes it is just sex and swimming with the occasional dejected look. Both Lin and Henri have 'daddy issues', but Koole gives us no reason to feel anything for these distant, superficially written characters. Unless you have already read the book of the same name by Oek de Jong, you wonder what you have been watching. Camera work and sound are excellent, but you don't get much out of it.

dutch flagTranslated from Dutch · View original

avatar van jorrit3

jorrit3

  • 88 messages
  • 595 votes

What two people are looking for in each other often remains a mystery in real life, so it can also remain shrouded in mystery in the film.

Well, juicy Flemish, not always easy to understand, that's nice, but why doesn't father speak Frisian? And those sentences, that doesn't really fit the rough car mechanic he has to portray.

Finally, that swimming. A hundred strokes. And then further, into the sea, that's beautiful, I once wrote a story about that myself, seems to me something to conclude.

But then with a nicer, more professional touch. So it's all a bit amateurish.

Nice film for a break from the harsh reality.

dutch flagTranslated from Dutch · View original