Tussenstand (Stages) (2007)
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44% of critics liked it
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(71 ratings)
Social worker-turned-feature film dramatist Mijke de Jong illustrates the old adage that time heals all wounds with this semi-improvised domestic drama charting the complicated divorce of an unhappily couple, and the effect of the impassioned break-up on their troubled 17-year-old son. Roos (Elsie… More Social worker-turned-feature film dramatist Mijke de Jong illustrates the old adage that time heals all wounds with this semi-improvised domestic drama charting the complicated divorce of an unhappily couple, and the effect of the impassioned break-up on their troubled 17-year-old son. Roos (Elsie de Brauw) and Martin (Marcel Musters) are two middle-aged intellectuals who have spent years attempting to make their marriage work, only to realize that no amount of compromise will compensate for their irreconcilable differences. Unable to be alone in the same room due to the volatile emotions that erupt when they attempt to find a common ground, the fractured couple carries on bickering as their adolescent son, Isaac (Stijn Koomen), falls into a dangerous pattern of juvenile delinquency. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Mijke de Jong
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 2, 2007 Wide
- Studio
- Cinemien
Critic Reviews
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
The burden placed on the actors is an immense one, and they respond magnificently to a very loosely controlled form of filmmaking.
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A.O. Scott, New York Times
The phrase 'divorced couple' sounds like an oxymoron, but there's really no other way to describe the Dutch ex-spouses whose table talk dominates Stages.
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Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York
Rather than food for thought, De Jong's film chokes on its own dualism.
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Michelle Orange, Village Voice
De Jong's technique of filming conversations with the camera latched onto one character for minutes at a time is both disorienting and almost suffocatingly intimate.
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John P. McCarthy, Boxoffice Magazine
An admirably spare and forthright chamber piece about divorce and its painful central theme receives a mysterious, beautiful and eventually hopeful counterpoint.
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Cast
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Elsie de Brauw
as Roos
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Marcel Musters
as Martin
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Stijn Koomen
as Isaac
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Jeroen Willems
as Joris
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Joan Nederlof
as Carolien
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Jennifer St. Jago
as Ineke
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Shireen Strooker
as Jawa
