The Dress
Initially, ?The Dress? falls into the grooves of comedy, but when people start wearing it, it is transformed into a desperate and heartrending quest for whatever is missing in each owner’s life, which is usually love.
How easy is it to structure an entire film around a single object? Can you possibly keep the audience engaged, when the main focus of your story isn’t a person but a piece of fabric? With his third feature, Alex van Warmerdam takes an unusual risk, delivering his most sarcastic and bleakest film to date.
The Dutch enfant terrible discovers his own private McGuffin in a blue dress, the perfect plot device that will allow him to infiltrate different people’s lives as the garment keeps changing hands. From design to production and all the way to the sales counter, the dress becomes the trigger for a series of intertwining stories that are sometimes provocative, sometimes violent, but always hilariously funny.
Initially, “The Dress” falls into the grooves of comedy, but when people start wearing it, it is transformed into a desperate and heartrending quest for whatever is missing in each owner’s life, which is usually love. K.Th.
Εναλλακτικοί τίτλοι / Alternative titles: The Dress / De jurk
Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Σενάριο / Screenwriter: Alex van Warmerdam
Φωτογραφία / DoP: Marc Felperlaan
Μουσική / Music: Vincent van Warmerdam
Μοντάζ / Editor: René Wiegmans
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast: Henri Garcin, Ariane Schluter, Alex van Warmerdam, Ricky Koole, Rijk de Gooyer, Elisabeth Hoijtink
Ολλανδία / Netherlands
1996
Εγχρωμο / Color
103’
Ολλανδικά / Dutch
* Screens on 24th September and 29th September
