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Kleine Teun (1998)

Comedy | 95 minutes
3,43 276 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 95 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Alex van Warmerdam

Stars: Alex van Warmerdam, Annet Malherbe and Ariane Schluter

IMDb score: 6,9 (1.161)

Releasedate: 30 April 1998

Kleine Teun plot

Black comedy about three characters who get caught up in an impossible situation. Brand (Alex van Warmerdam) and Keet live on a farm. During the day Keet works in the city and in the evening she reads the subtitles on the television to her husband, because Brand is illiterate. Keet has had enough and wants her husband to follow a course. The arrival of tutor Lena makes life quite complicated; Lena and Brand fall in love with each other and Keet stimulates this to fulfill her own wish to have children. That is asking for trouble.

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Alex van Warmerdam, what a fine director, always with his bizarre world.

Incidentally, the only film by him that has not appeared on DVD in the Netherlands and where I had to get it from America. This film is also completely as we know Alex: empty, desolate, bizarre, twisted, and in the meantime there are enough moments to cringe with laughter. I like the fact that Alex always plays a part himself; here he plays a grumpy stubborn farmer Brand who lives in a farm with his dominant obsessive wife Keet, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Brand doesn't give a shit about his life and the couple is always in each other's hair. In addition, he is still illiterate, so Keet thinks it is time to teach him a lesson in Dutch. She does this by bringing in a teacher Lena who every day briefly brush up on the "Aap-Noot-Mies" at Brand. We also find out about the rather perverse traits of Brand, who does get a bit horny with Lena. And yes, instead of Lena being completely shocked, running away, and never coming back things turn out differently.... very different. Again everyone here is completely screwed up or crazy. With hilarious yet shocking moments, as we only know them from Alex.

Again Alex proves to me that it really can be called one of the best directors/actors in the Netherlands who is again a contradiction of all that crap about depressed middle-aged women or those underpants humor comedies that are suitable for children of 10.

4.5*

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Fisico

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Let Van Warmerdam do something about a love triangle and he turns it into a surreal plot that you think you've seen by now and then comes up with something surprising. Again, the strength of the film lies in the characters. The setting seems to me to be a little less decisive here.

What great entertainment the bickering between farmer Brand and his wife Keet was. Nice dialogues, witty and humorous. Top! She the dominant bossy woman, he the somewhat awkward idiosyncratic illiterate. The teacher should then be the most normal of the three, but even then you will be disappointed with Van Warmerdam. Love how the plot continues to unfold with the fun but awkward table scenes or the bed scenes.

It's hard to fathom with those double secretive agendas what was everyone's intention now. It was fascinating how all this leads to a climax. Nice!

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Film Pegasus (moderator films)

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Alex van Warmerdam remains one of the better directors at the Northern neighbors. Kleine Teun is a film adaptation of a play by the director who, after the stage, also directs the film, plays in it and provides the music. The film may not be his best, it clearly got better over the years, but it remains a compelling film nonetheless. Cynical humor with unsympathetic but colorful figures.

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