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De pretenders (1981)
Well acting amateurs in a nice picture about the sixties
Young people meet in the local pub and pretend a lot more than they are. Mostly their swanky conduct is touching and affecting, sometimes it is boring. There is a lot of attention for the clothes, hair-dress, music and cars of the sixties. Some of the amateur-actors became later well-known Dutch actors and directors.
De tranen van Maria Machita (1991)
A little musical with a gorgeous Ellen ten Damme!
Although the film is made by a young student from the Dutch Film Academy, the film looks very professional.It is a little musical; even the dialogues are sung. First you think it is a boring tear-jerker, but soon you realize that the film is made with a lot of nice humor, fine songs and a good story. There are several good scenes in the picture. The film starts very threatening, especially for a little chicken to be flattened under a pair of boots. Ellen ten Damme seems to play an innocent girl, that is surprised by the cruelty of life, but she also has a naughty defiant look in her beautiful eyes and her fat wink after the credits you wont easily forget.
Grote Klaas en kleine Klaas (1974)
Nice film, particularly for children and all people that love fairy-tales
In the early eighties I hired the film at a distribution center to show it in the school I was teaching at that time.The children liked it so much that I hired the movie every year again. It is a short movie (45 minutes) about jealousy and greed. As in every morality the persons get their deserved punishment. A lot of humor, suspense and nice photography are the credits for a movie with a pleasant atmosphere.