Feestje (2004)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Ruud van Hemert

Writer:

Mischa Alexander (writer)

Release Date:

12 February 2004 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Imagine: Having a loathing of couples - Being betrayed by your best friend getting married. Now imagine meeting the woman of your dreams...

Plot:

Thijs uses the money he's offered to organize his best mate Ben's wedding to finance his own restaurant.

Plot Keywords:

Wedding | One Night Stand | Student | Best Man | Father Daughter Relationship

Cast

Antonie Kamerling	...	Thijs
Daphne Bunskoek	...	Susan
Beau van Erven Dorens	...	Ben
Chantal Janzen	...	Talita
Trudy Labij	...	Anneth Bekooy
Guus Dam	...	Walter Bekooy
Roeland Fernhout	...	Sigmund
Tara Elders	...	Maartje
Cindy Belliot	...	Charly
Hugo Konings	...	Peter
Edward Koldewijn	...	Stef
Menno Stijntjes	...	Frank
Giovanni Jap-Ngie	...	Wesley
Patrick Vermin	...	Boely
Guillermo Blinker	...	Carlos

Also Known As:

Love Trap (International: English title) (USA) (informal English title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Company:

PVPictures

Movie Connections:

References Ik ook van jou (2001)

Soundtrack:

Summer on Your Radio

Party!

I don't think they could make this movie in Hollywood. No matter who will fill in the cast and crew. Greg Kinnear and Penélope Cruz as main characters and Quentin Tarantino as director, it won't matter. Not even when you would fly Antonie Kamerling and Ruud van Hemert to LA to re-make the film. This is the perfect example of a real Dutch movie. I expected nothing, cause I'm not really Dutch-minded after all, but my god, I love this movie!

The story is about two friends, Ben (Beau van Erven Dorens) and Thijs (Antonie Kamerling), who are only chasing women for sex. Until Ben finds the love of his life and wants to get married. Thijs feels betrayed, but when Ben asks him to be the best men on his wedding, Thijs' got the perfect plan to make his own party...!

I like the story, I like Antonie Kamerling, but I'm not sure about the rest of the cast... There's Beau van Erven Dorens, who's, in my opinion, a really bad actor, and all these familiar faces for those very little parts. Great actors who just play one or two scenes. If it's not less.

I'm not quiet sure about the director either. His movie was great, and I've seen other amazing stuff he made, but somethings I could shoot him. There are, in my opinion, too many mistakes. Just little mistakes, but mistakes I really hate. I don't really know the word in English (cause I'm a Dutch girl with a very low mark for that subject...), but to translate it word to word: director's mistakes. You can see that some scenes took ages to make them perfect. Different haircuts, different clothes...

Anyway, after all I really liked this movie. Maybe I misted the Dutch actors watching only Greg Kinnear-films, maybe it was just Antonie Kamerling's lovely smile, I don't know, but I can guarantee this Dutch movie is worth watching!