De Gelukkige Huisvrouw (2010)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Duration: 100 minuten
Alternative title: The Happy Housewife
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Antoinette Beumer
Stars: Carice van Houten and Waldemar Torenstra
IMDb score:
6,7 (3.094)
Releasedate: 15 April 2010
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
De Gelukkige Huisvrouw plot
Meet Lea Meijer, a woman who is young, beautiful, rich and happily married to Harry. One bad day, Harry decides he wants a child. Leah agrees, after they agree that he will take her every night. And with a full-time au-pair her life doesn't really have to change, does it? The delivery becomes a long-lasting hell complete with forceps delivery and total rupture. But Junior turns out to be healthy and Harry is overjoyed. But not Leah.
Actors and actresses
Lea Meijer
Harry Meijer
Henriette
Theo
Machteld
Vader
Beau
Enzo
Brigit
Reviews & comments
tommykonijn
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- 5153 messages
- 2366 votes
A bit of a disappointing film... I didn't really have high expectations, but I had estimated it a bit better. The acting of Carice and Waldemar is quite good. But the story gets a little strange at some point. Lea suddenly becomes happy with her son and tries to kill him. How this is portrayed is not very believable because it is quite unexpected (imo). The scenes in the asylum were fun (that guy who wanted to hug Lea all the time brought a smile to my face anyway). And there the situation was well portrayed. But when Lea is allowed to go home and start talking about her father, a new subplot appears which is actually not that interesting. Towards the end, I found the film to be rather long-winded. I also found the ending a bit unexpected... In general, it's not a bad movie, because it certainly had positives. It's also nice to see. But also no more than that.
2.5*
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- 2543 messages
- 1234 votes
The film feels very forced, especially the side where the drama should be able to profile itself. Those scenes are also the weakest, because the rest of the film is too nice to digest.
The story itself doesn't quite work out. It is also thanks to the somewhat light-hearted narration and the running time that the film has become a not too heavy ''birth'', because I was occasionally surprised by the routes the film took.
The film is actually divided into ''3 chapters'', those chapters feel a bit too much taken care of, because nowhere is it really clear what the bottleneck is of the events surrounding Lea. I appreciate the ambition of the light-hearted and hip narration that the film is trying to make, but now it is at the expense of the story technical part. I'm missing the point the film is trying to make. Partly due to the fact that the film does not put together flawlessly, the ''dramas'' also fall into the soup.
2.5**
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El ralpho
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- 1485 messages
- 1096 votes
Looking coffee
The Happy Housewife is not always a pleasant movie to watch. This is not so much because of the melancholy theme, or the gloomy thought pattern of Lea (Interpreted by Carice van Houten) but more because of the slow middle part that presents itself as soon as Lea is recorded. these scenes feel too drawn out. and in my opinion they are just a bit too thick on top. I can imagine that the makers are trying to emphasize the seriousness of the matter and that otherwise it might not reach the viewer as quickly, but even then these scenes lasted far too long and in the long run they missed their impact on me.
Still, this title as a whole is by no means a bad film. Lea's collapse and in particular how she manages to recover with blood, sweat and tears once she comes home does not go without a fight, and has its moments. The relationship that Lea has with her father is also quite moving, and people who have had to deal with suicide in their lives will have to swallow this for a while.
As a drama, the director does a pretty decent job, and the ending can certainly have a certain impact on the viewer. However, the middle part could have been drastically shortened and especially also a bit more fascinating.
3.0*
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