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Van Geluk Gesproken (1987)

Comedy | 96 minutes
2,76 84 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 96 minuten

Alternative title: Count Your Blessings

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Pieter Verhoeff

Stars: Peter Tuinman, Geert de Jong and Michiel Romeyn

IMDb score: 5,7 (168)

Releasedate: 19 November 1987

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Van Geluk Gesproken plot

Humorous and dramatic portrait of the different families in an Amsterdam building, in which the staircase symbolizes the well-known urban suffering of living apart. After the book of the same name by Marijke Höweler.

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Robi

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I saw this film a long time ago and apparently I didn't like it as much then as I do now. The film starts with famous images of an experiment with monkeys that grow up without their mother. And that is actually the theme of this film. A film about relationships that can go horribly wrong. Actually also a very sad film. There are indeed clumsy elements in the film. Things that I now think that Dutch film has fortunately outgrown, but that were still very recognizable for Dutch film in the seventies and eighties. Vague dialogues and dubious acting performances. And events that are taken for granted but that actually come out of nowhere. But despite these kinds of things that I can just as easily criticize a film for, I still thought it was a beautiful and good film. I especially thought the atmosphere was beautifully created. Furthermore, it was also nice to see two-thirds of Jiskefet at work at a time when Jiskefet didn't even exist yet.

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Tonight I watched this perhaps somewhat old-fashioned film again; but that is of course now: 2019, while the film dates back to 1987!!

Typical Dutch film; nothing wrong with it, a bit slow perhaps, but that's 'nice' in a hectic time like today!!

"Women, WOMEN: if I want dirt in my nest, I'll shit in it myself!" Masterful: had to laugh out loud at that!

In short; a nice, good film in a nice atmosphere (as Robi already said on 26-09-2014 -how time flies!).

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Lovelyboy

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Last night, at the last minute, I briefly watched this film, which I had mainly brought with me because it was part of the Rob Houwer collection and therefore something that had disappointed me on several occasions, but hey, you never know and I didn't know the film.

Take an Amsterdam canal house with residents on each floor who are different from each other, represent a different environment, or are in a different phase of life. The hallway with stairs would symbolize the encounters in life and how people live alongside each other. Sounds philosophical and symbolic, you might say, with a title like Count your blessings, and with that a layered, complicated and profound film. Not to mention a good cast with Romeyn, Tuinman and a good Sternheim, and then you have quite a lot, right...? Well no, far from it.

Because Van Geluk Gesproken immediately shows itself at the opening as a typical Dutch film with a painful kind of absurdism where the old people lie under the fallen Christmas tree, and the characters in the rest of the film are sometimes portrayed as very strange, flat and superficial. It may all be taken from life, because unfortunately that's how life is, but I still regularly wonder during the film what this is actually all about and what it leads to. My interest and ability to further understand the film has already dropped to zero well before the halfway point, where I only long for the end. And fortunately the film does not last very long. I have not been able to discover a common thread or logic in this and I can therefore only say that this is an incredibly crappy film.

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