Juch

The past years many good Dutch films were released. Zwartboek was the highlight of 2007 in Dutch cinema, almost winning an Oscar for best foreign movie. In the more recent past other good Dutch movies were released; Phileine zegt sorry, van God los, Ik ook van jou, Minoes, and even Vet Hard.Alles is liefde was something I looked forward to as it was said to be a very good movie. How disappointed was I. The movie suffers from bad scripting. Kim van Kooten is a much better actress than she is a scripter. The plot is very unrealistic and, apart from a few brief exceptions, the dialogue is terrible. The movie is, in many ways, very much based on "Love Actually" released some years earlier. However, unlike Love Actually, it is not very successful as a comedy and ultimately as a feel-good movie. Also, this movie does not contribute to the Dutch cinema. There were Dutch movies are, normally, very creative, original and in some ways provocative, this movie is none. For its unrealistic scripting, its failure as a comedy and the fact that it is a rip-off, I do not recommend it. Watch Love Actually.

After the latest Bond film, I had to readjust these definitions. After watching Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle, I had to again readjust these definitions. Hollywood seems to be able to cram more special effects into a movie, with every movie they make.

Though there is nothing wrong watching Liu, Diaz and Barrymore accompanied with Demi Moore, in action some might be annoyed by the fact that there are many stunts which seem to be taking place in a world where all the laws of Nature do not apply.

All in all, the movie was a nice relaxating movie, and I would certainly recommend you see it, Charlie needs to share his Angels, but if you are in to watching a 'good' storyline, I'd advise you to seek it elsewhere.

I read the book, De Tweeling by Tessa de Loo, and I must say that the movie most certainly lived up to the high quality of the book, in some ways even surpassed it.

The movie is about two little girls, obviously twins, who tragically get separated. One to work on a farm, the other to live with rich relatives in The Netherlands to recover from her tbc. The movie then jumps to present where to two elderly sisters meet again in a spa. However, their meeting is far from loving and it becomes clear that some scar from the past obstructs the reunion of these two sisters.

The movie then brilliantly uses flashbacks to reveal the scar that has separated the two for life, and it mostly comes down to the second world war, both living and experiences it in a different way and place.