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Jenny (1958)

Drama | 98 minutes
2,76 35 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 98 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Willy van Hemert

Stars: Ellen van Hemert, Maxim Hamel and Kees Brusse

IMDb score: 5,7 (49)

Releasedate: 21 February 1958

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Jenny plot

Jenny (Ellen van Hemert), a young girl of eighteen, an enthusiastic rower, is engaged to the art dealer Ed van Rijn (Maxim Hamel). When she confesses to Ed that she is expecting a baby and wants to marry him, the young man doesn't seem to mind. Jenny, disappointed and angry, decides to shell out for herself.

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wendyvortex

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Charming era in the very first Dutch feature film in color. A story about women's rowing, pregnancy and the father-to-be who does not respond too happily is somewhat of an underestimated importance. Pretty nice image of Amsterdam in 1958 with performances in the Carrousel by Max Woiski and Corrie Brokken. Nice image also of the female students in the late fifties. A young Kees Brusse as a gynecologist and a not very old Ko van Dijk as the Dutch stage actor and father of Jenny. It's all quite upper class. Of course enjoy the beautiful neat dialogues, our language use has deteriorated somewhat since the late 1950s.

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atropine

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  • 225 votes

The big question is what the then gigantic budget of 550,000 guilders was spent on. Jenny is an extremely sober film that consists of many superfluous and over-drawn scenes. The actors speak too loud and affect their flat and clichéd dialogues and the film as a whole does not want to be captivating at all. The highlight for me were the closing minutes in which Jenny wins her rowing competition and the German cameraman suddenly uses a large aperture, so that as a viewer you suddenly realize that you are really watching a film instead of a play.

Jenny was Van Hemert's film debut. Despite the fact that he delivered a mediocre film, it was still nice to get an insight into the 1950s, the language and manners as propagated in the film of that time.

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Movsin

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Nostalgia for that time, although the story is very simple and now comes across as dated. But we wipe that away and enjoy what was then possible on the canvas. Nice romance, without sensationalism but with feeling, right, and we'll add the rushed ending.

Corry Bokken is also in the film. "Just like then" she doesn't sing, as if that, seen now, would have been a good title.

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