Dutch software consultancy firm's rising man Michael Bellicher's life turns into a living nightmare when he's framed for a murder and later other crimes by the well-connected goons of the mysterious Mr. Miller, who also try to kill him. He must risk appealing to now uncertain loyalties to find out who and why, avoid the police and counter what turns out to be an EU-wide virtual...
When his world-traveling job no longer pays the bills, photographer Chris moves back in with his mother Marja, and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together.
The recent Netherlands Film Festival opening film is a very loose adaptation of the eponymous bestseller by Surinamese novelist Cynthia McLeod (daughter of independent Suriname’s first president, Johan Ferrier), and is no doubt well intentioned, though its tendency to foreground a dominantly white perspective doesn’t jive with its choice of a black narrator (which is different ...
