{"id":626819,"date":"2024-07-06T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T12:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-bittersweet-dutch-father-son-study\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T12:35:45","slug":"watch-a-bittersweet-dutch-father-son-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-bittersweet-dutch-father-son-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Bittersweet Dutch Father-Son Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35010703d7a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35010703d7a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-bittersweet-dutch-father-son-study\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Bittersweet_Dutch_Father-Son_Study%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Bittersweet Dutch Father-Son Study&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-bittersweet-dutch-father-son-study\/#%E2%80%9CA_Bittersweet_Dutch_Father-Son_Study%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Bittersweet Dutch Father-Son Study&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Bittersweet_Dutch_Father-Son_Study%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Bittersweet Dutch Father-Son Study&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Bittersweet_Dutch_Father-Son_Study%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Bittersweet Dutch Father-Son Study&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If Alexander Payne\u2019s home discomforts weren\u2019t Nebraskan but instead the soft climate and flat sidewalks of Rotterdam \u2014 if his name were Alexander Peijn, perhaps \u2014 his films might turn out a little like Peter Hoogendoorn\u2018s hangdog charmer \u201cThree Days of Fish.\u201d At once universally familiar and so quintessentially Dutch in flavor that it should come with a side of<em> fritessaus<\/em>, this story of a brief, fraught reunion between a distant father and his unmoored son is an intimate, closely examined character piece rooted in the director\u2019s own family history \u2014 much like his debut \u201cBetween 10 and 12,\u201d which premiered at Venice in 2014 but never found the international distribution it deserved. Bowing in competition at Karlovy Vary, this decade-later sophomore feature may be modestly built, but has enough emotional heft and wry humor to raise Hoogendoorn\u2019s profile on the arthouse circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It takes a little time to work out exactly what family politics connect (or separate) taciturn retired mechanic Gerrie (Ton Kas), his shambling middle-aged son Dick (Guido Pollemans), and a second child, Nadia (Neidi Dos Santos Livramento), who doesn\u2019t seem to have much to do with the first. Hoogendoorn\u2019s spare but perceptive <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> counts on its own tense character dynamics to fill in the blanks over time. That approach serves it well, as do a set of fine, precise performances. In the opening scene, as Dick meets and somewhat stiffly welcomes Gerrie at a bus stop \u2014 a handshake, not a hug \u2014 we need only a minute in their combined presence to sense years lost between them, the gap mossily grown over by alienation and resentment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It emerges that Gerrie relocated to Portugal some years ago with his second wife \u2014 a Cape Verdean immigrant, and the mother of Nadia \u2014 and is returning to Rotterdam for an annual three-day visit, during which time he crams in medical checkups, catches up with friends and relatives, and spends quality time of variable quality with his two children. That he chooses to stay only at Nadia\u2019s apartment is a sore point for Dick, who it seems felt cast off by his father even when they shared a country of residence. Raised mostly by his grandmother after his mom died when he was a boy, Dick has grown into a diffident, eccentric outsider, with more chip than shoulder, but tender enough to have attracted a loyal, patient girlfriend in Bianca (Line Pillet, in a small but crucially endearing turn).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In a gruff effort to make up for past emotional abandonment, Gerrie spends the days largely with Dick, whose lack of gainful employment \u2014 he makes some money upcycling furniture found on the street \u2014 permits him to doggedly accompany his dad to his various appointments. Conversation doesn\u2019t come easily to them, and so they fill their itinerary with prompts to the past: a visit to Gerrie\u2019s old workplace, another to Dick\u2019s grandmother\u2019s former (and dispiritingly renovated) house, an attempt to visit their wife\/mother\u2019s graveside that ends in a cruel bureaucratic twist. Perhaps, if they simply remember things together, some manner of reparative bond will grow between them. Perhaps not: Gerrie finds it hard to mask his lack of comprehension regarding his son\u2019s life choices, while Dick can\u2019t quite forgive his father for past absences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And yet there\u2019s something rather moving in their attempts to forge meaningful time together \u2014 the effort is a kind of love in itself, enduring if not growing in the impasse between them. Veteran Dutch character actor Kas plays Gerrie\u2019s withdrawal without resorting to impassivity, his body language in a constant state of indecision between too much and too little, while Pollemans is superb as a man who wants to let others into his life but can\u2019t quite find the keys, simmering with violence toward himself more than others. Hoogendoorn arguably articulates something of the Dutch condition in his deft delineation of their relationship \u2014 a candid, no-nonsense bluffness that can run either cool or generously warm \u2014 but these characters remain particular and peculiar throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The choice to shoot in muted, relatively low-contrast black and white \u2014 though not carelessly so, with DP Gregg Telussa elegantly layering grays to ambient, clouded-over effect \u2014 appears to reflect Gerrie\u2019s own view of a country he has few regrets about leaving behind, and not just because of the muzzy Rotterdam weather. But it also has a unifying effect in its portraiture of father and son, their lives far apart but here painted in the same stifled tones. A wistful, reedy jazz score by Christiaan Verbeek captures, too, the tenor of their relationship, with mournful notes under brisker, busier instrumentation. The title refers both to the length of Gerrie\u2019s stay and the adage, popularly attributed to Benjamin Franklin, that guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days: Any more and we might get the big, confrontational family melodrama they\u2019re avoiding. That\u2019ll wait until next time, or the time after that, indefinitely postponed past these days sufficiently spent together \u2014 not entirely happily or entirely honestly, but together just the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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