Wilde mossels

WIlD MUSSELS I've seen the remastered version is just a film good on all levels; The story is touching, there is surprisingly funny sequences in this tragic story, the soundtrack is just fabulous and the way the lead role is acted by Fedja van Huet ( who also starred in the Oscar winning film Character is amazing. The dialogues are well written by director Erik de Bruyn, who is responsible for the script too. He must have made a great team with his D.o.p. Joost van Gelder. The photography is like the Southern East dutch landscape is divided into paintings and sometimes the camera is unedited and raw. Van Gelder is now shooting worldwide campaigns from his new hometown L.A. And one can see his talent already in this film. The ending apotheosis is just very very well edited. So I need to say that for cinema-lovers, this can't be missed. Check it out!

The cinematography of this movie is phenomenal somehow, it is rough, has edges. It combines two styles. I love the story because isn't this anti -hero like a sort of Hamlet; a main character who doesn't know what he wants! This movie must have been an example already to movie makers here. It doesn't have a good ending, this story but it is very well told. The dialogues are great and with humor. I personally love the soundtrack. The score by "David van der Heyden" who also scored for the other "Erik de Bruyn" movie "NADINE" (2007) is subtle and tender. But there is also great songs in this film and the Nashville Pussy is performing in it. This movie is a must see.

A good film about three friends in Zeeland and especcially one of them want to leave his homeplace for good, but nothing seems so eassy. I had heared of the film but I though it was not so a good film. Till somebody said that this film was a good dutch produktion. So I watched it and I was suprised, becausse I was not one moment bored during the movie. I really liked it.

About being bored. In millions of shades of grey. The opening scenes of a blotto lead smoking without inhaling created immediately a thin falseness and ruined the whole thing for me. Made it all just silly. And boring.

That Zeeland, a region in The Netherlands, is not just a place for summer holidays, is made pretty clear in this stunning movie. I myself a Zeeland-born person was put on by this film in an explicable way.

The essence of this film, trying to leave the region in which you've grown up, is a major problem of youth in peripheric places. 'Wilde Mossels' is therefore not only a poetic portrait of a depressing 'wasteland', but a pointer of social problems. The director brings out these problems accompanied with a large amount of humor, in one respect because of the dialect that is spoken and one the other hand because of the surrealism that is being used. The alcohol and drug abuse (dried mussels) is another aspect that creates a rather depressing portrait of a beautiful region. But that is what makes this movie special: a new approach on an existing image.

My opinion on this film is that it is of a great value within the Dutch movie-business. Absurdism, social engagement, drama and humor isn't only bound to our capital Amsterdam, but can be used in other places as well.

9 out of 10