Wilde mossels

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

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.

Wilde Mossels is a tale of restlessness. It's a timeless movie about young people who don't want to get stuck in the life there parents have. Leen desperately wants to leave his native village, but can't push himself to actually go. So all that is left is working, drinking beer with his friends, and riding his chopper.

It's a film about boredom, but it's far from boring. The photography is beautiful, the acting is intense, and the sound track is great. And it's not just another heavy drama about angst and pointlessness, it's pretty funny as well. Leen hallucinates about a very strange bit of Ireland, and his best friend Daan delivers some first class one-liners.

A must see for anyone who thinks Dutch films are crap. You're wrong!