Isabelle (2011)
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Duration: 100 minuten
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Ben Sombogaart
Stars: Halina Reijn, Tineke Caels and Wim Opbrouck
IMDb score:
6,0 (836)
Releasedate: 22 September 2011
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Isabelle plot
When the deformed artist Jeanne (Tineke Caels), driven by jealousy, kidnaps the beautiful and celebrated film actress Isabelle (Halina Reijn), a blood-curdling psychological battle to the death ensues between the two women. Jeanne wants to starve Isabelle in order to paint a picture of human decline. Based on the book of the same name by Tessa de Loo.
Actors and actresses
Isabelle
Jeanne
Bernard
Vader van Isabelle
Moeder van Isabelle
Father Jeanne
Mother Jeanne
Gislene
Camilla
Reviews & comments
Donnie Vallermee
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- 223 messages
- 204 votes
Look, I thought THIS was a very good movie?
Good story! Good acting and certainly important a 'good ending'.
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Fisico (moderator films)
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- 10008 messages
- 5398 votes
Reasonable thriller of Dutch-Belgian origin in which a celebrity is kidnapped somewhere in the Ardennes. The plot or underlying motives of the how and why was well worked out and distinguishes itself from a typical abduction. A constant tension and polarization was proposed between beauty and ugliness. Beauty and ugliness are subjective data and one cannot exist without the other. There was the necessary depth in what both concepts do to someone. Although at times it was just too thick to indicate the contrasts. Transience through art was also mentioned. In other words, some thought has gone into the plot.
What really bothered me the most were the limited acting performances. Tineke Caels, for example, didn't seem natural to me with her wooden lyrics. Little flair and talk too "general civilized Dutch" to come across as good. I also missed the necessary playfulness or cunning with her co-player Halina Reijn.
The ending was OK, but a little predictable. Here and there some strange situations that raised eyebrows, but all in all not bad to see. You are usually a little more lenient for a homegrown film. Just enough, but certainly not a Golden Palm winner.
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blondiefilmfreak
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- 748 messages
- 353 votes
good acting performance** for a dutch film very worthwhile.
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