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Project Herbert (2024)

Comedy | 86 minutes
2,99 37 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 86 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Barbara Bredero

Stars: Thomas Hoppener, Celia van den Boogert and Faye Kimmijser

IMDb score: 6,7 (199)

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Project Herbert plot

When his mother decides that Herbert must finally leave home, the reserved municipal official ends up in his deceased father's broken-down classic car. The housing market is overheated - finding a home is impossible. After a number of desperate attempts, he is admitted to a student house due to a mistake. For the first time, Herbert has to learn what it means to share a toilet, shower, kitchen or living room with many people. And the students suddenly have to deal with a forty-something in their chaotic party house. Will the unlikely housemates succeed in finding peace?

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GZN

  • 27 messages
  • 209 votes

Sympathetic film. A bit predictable and leans heavily on clichés (civil servants, home-dwellers, students, etc.).

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mrklm

  • 11374 messages
  • 9897 votes

Excellently directed tragicomedy about 40-year-old Herbert [Thomas Höppener] who, as a clerk at the town hall, sticks to the rules to the letter. Until his mother [Celia van den Boogert] forces him to live on his own. He uses his knowledge of rules to get a room in a student house and learns there that order and regularity are not as self-evident as he thought. In order to survive, he will have to adjust his lifestyle and attitude. With his slightly dazed look and his measured raised voices, Höppener finds the right balance between pathetic and touching and makes Herbert a recognizable, sympathetic character. Although most of the characters are essentially archetypes, Bredero ensures that no one lapses into caricature. Nazmiye Oral (as passive-aggressive colleague Jenny) and André Dongelmast (as alleged fishing fanatic Freek) are the most striking. The last shot is brilliant.

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Roger Thornhill

  • 6011 messages
  • 2445 votes

A wonderfully fun surprise, with a plot that may not offer too many surprises but that nevertheless has enough humor and fun characters along the way to keep the film constantly entertaining. The central role is of course Thomas Höppener's performance, and boy does he do this well, always cool but also very human, and his change at the end is very natural and "gradual" without him suddenly becoming a different and much more decisive person. But that great acting actually applies to the entire cast, and in that respect I have to pay a big compliment to the director: in addition to the Mees Kees films, I also knew her from the first Maud & Babs series, and there too the acting was perfectly natural - I think we can take that credit for her. Project Herbert is in any case one of the nicest and most entertaining Dutch films of recent years.

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