Ik ook van jou

I have a different opinion about this film. People above me say it's extremely exaggerated. I can tell you this film does not go halfway of what people with Borderline experience in their heads. Just because this already is hard to understand, because of it's outrageousness, because of the unbelievable ways a Borderline-mind works, this film does not go any deeper than this. The way a Borderliner thinks and feels is way beyond human understanding. Unless you have Borderline, or you live with somebody who has it, you will never be able to comprehend this... I have seen this film twice now, and still know for sure, that it is only half of what it should be...

When "Ik ook van jou" was released on dvd, I ran to the videostore to rent it. Having read the book by Ronald Giphart (I've read all of his books) I really wanted to see what they had made of it.

Sadly, the fun that is present in the book is nowhere to be found in the movie. What remains is the sad story of a romance between our protagonist and his highly disturbed girlfriend.

Having said that, "Ik ook van jou" makes for an entertaining night of television, just don't expect to much. Maybe the next adaptation of a Ronald Giphart novel will do better (Phileine zegt sorry).

This movie was special to me cause it also was about personality disorder and during that time I was tested about it . It is a story about a destructive love , but also about Borderline cause Reza in this movie is a Borderliner . This story is based on a book of a Dutch writer and has the same title but the movie is a lot changed from the book . It is Angela Schijf first movie role and she really plays Reza well

The movie is about the love between Eric and Reza . They meet in a short time and fall in love . After a while their relationship changes and he founds out Reza is different then other girls . Reza is selfdestructive and hangs on to Eric like he is her only hope .

Eric is terrified by that , cause he loves her but doesn't understand her moodswings , her outbursts and her harming herself . Reza truly loves him but doesn't know how to handle it and starts claiming him more , which drives them only further apart .

This movie was good cause it was about Borderline and made the others that watched the movie more understandable to it . And it is also about a love that is going wrong because they both couldn't deal with it .

If you ever going go to watch this movie be sure to take tissues with you cause it will is surely going to make you cry.

I tried to see this movie on the first night showing. The show in the city I live in was sold out. "This must be really something", I thought. I now expect that most people leaving the theater that night must have had the same though as I have now, after seeing the movie on DVD: "highly overrated; not living up to it's expectations". I didn't read the book, have to be honest about that. From what I've read, the book's author, Mr Giphart, wasn't really pleased with the movie either. Some remarks: - the plot is too clear; I knew how it would end before the movie was half on it's way - not very well acting from Ms Schijf and Mr Kamerling. The latter is also the narrator and I'm not sure whether it's intended this way, but he's reading lines and that just sounds horrible. The small part of Mr Van Erven Dorens is ok. He's not that good of an actor, but he plays an over the top student-like ("studentikoos" in Dutch) student, in which he succeeds to make him student-like...quite realistic whether you like it or not.

I wouldn't advise this movie to my friends; if it is on tv and you're sure there's nothing else on...well, it's ok to watch it, I guess. Nothing more, nothing less. A 4,5 out of 10

So I went to see the movie "Ik ook van jou". I thought it was quite nice. The story unfolds rather jerky here and there, but I think Ruud van Hemert (the director) has a great eye for pictures. Some of the camerawork and lighting is really awesome.

But what surprised me most was the use of music composed by the collective "Normally Invisible": The intro-sequence was rather shocking and unconventional, then it switches over to 'standard' John Williams type of scoring. Then it reveals more depth to the characters as the story moves along. The composers are obviously not afraid of using breakbeats, dark ambient spheres, experimental sound design and romantic 'classic' scoring.

One of the most impressive scenes was Rezas birthday party where the music really hits you as it morphs from hectic drum'n'bass/metal to transparent sounddesign ending in a rather 'esoteric' sphere... just amazing!

I can only say that these guys know what they are doing. Keep an eye out for "Normally Invisible" as they seem to perform their stuff live as well....

Oh yeah, and go see the movie! (preferrably in a theatre with good sound)