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[Updated with English subtitled version and even more fun when you can understand what they're saying!]Dutch helmer Arne Toonen burst on to our radar here at TwitchFilm a few years back with the release of his 2012 feature Black Out. A hugely stylish crime caper, Black Out planted Toonen's flag as the sort of director with the visual chops to play with the Guy Ritchie's of the world. Which is absolutely true but what audiences outside of the Netherlands didn't realize was just how different this film was from Toonen's previous work, with his prior feature - 2010's Dik Trom - being a hugely successful children's film. And now? Now Toonen has combined his criminal and family urges with De Boskampi's.De Boskampi's is a feature...

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Dutch helmer Arne Toonen burst on to our radar here at TwitchFilm a few years back with the release of his 2012 feature Black Out. A hugely stylish crime caper, Black Out planted Toonen's flag as the sort of director with the visual chops to play with the Guy Ritchie's of the world. Which is absolutely true but what audiences outside of the Netherlands didn't realize was just how different this film was from Toonen's previous work, with his prior feature - 2010's Dik Trom - being a hugely successful children's film. And now? Now Toonen has combined his criminal and family urges with De Boskampi's.De Boskampi's is a feature film based on a successful children's book by Marjon Hoffman. In this story about underdogs...

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“A splitting headache, a dead gangster, twenty kilos of missing coke and 24 hours to sort it all out before getting married. Jos is about to have a very bad day.” The above comes as the official brief summary of Black Out from the Fantastic Fest program guide. It’s the most appropriately succinct way to describe what director Arne Toonen delivers in his sophomore effort. His first film, Dik Trom, was a lighthearted family comedy. This time around, he’s going in a far more devious and delightfully violent direction. It all hangs on the gruff elegance of leading man Raymond Thiry, whose Jos is a puzzle meant to be pieced together over the course of the film. When we meet him, he’s confused and frightened by the situation in which he find himself. He’s an ex-con, but he’s since cleaned up his life and met the woman of his dreams, who...