Lastpak
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Frans Van De Staak
Marlies Heuer
Betty Schuurman
Nienke Van Spreeuwel
Rene Van't Hof
Marcel De Hoogd
Film Details
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Synopsis
There is a man, an actor who is acting his life. He is a nuisance, but only for those who have had enough of his play acting or who are ashamed to be around this clown. His wife breaks up with him because she just can't tolerate the man any more and he seems to accept that in an apparently matter-of-fact way. He leaves the city for a cottage in the countryside. He soon has a new audience. The woman next door and her daughter are curious to make his acquaintance and are at once enthusiastic about the ingenious simplicity of the shows by this nuisance who is not yet a nuisance to them, but a welcome change in there all-too-ordinary life. The mother and daughter become so fascinated by this man's inventive portrayal of everyday actions and thoughts that they also want to try their hand at acting. Then it becomes apparent that the nuisance has done his subversive jesting. The daughter finds a way in acting to free herself from the obvious dominance of her mother.
Director
Frans Van De Staak
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Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (In Praise of Folly) January 24 - February 4, 2001.
16mm
color
