De avonden movie

Year: 1989

Duration: 01:55:39

Directed by: Rudolf van den Berg

Actors:  Thom Hoffman, Rijk de Gooyer, Viviane de Muynck

Language: Dutch | English Subtitles

Country: Netherlands

Also known as: Evenings, Nas Entradas da Noite, Tardes

Description:De Avonden is alternately arch, mesmerizing, and poignant yarn about fading adolescence and personal transformation. 23 old year clerk endures hilarious meals with his flatulent, deaf father and demandingly eager-to-please mother, with whom he lives. He lurks around public pools with his demented friend Duivenis, a greasy-haired boy torture fantasist. And he stumble through parties, offices, school reunions, and various sexual encounters with the vivid fear and defensive cynicism of a true neurotic.
Director Van den Berg imagistically threads together themes of coming out, the soul-slaughtering nature of family relationships, and the paradoxically suffocating and freeing nature of time’s passage. Along the way he whimsically depicts the ribald sensitivities of a Dutch town gripped by the Christmas spirit. Yes the film’s surface comedy only highlights the claustrophobic angst that haunts Frits’s dreams–and thus, his lonely life. He has a secret to tell; the film’s tension lies in whether or not–and how–he’ll tell it. Van den Berg deftly drags us through each of Frits’s sexually charged, anxiety-fraught daydreams, irrevocably revealing the desperation of Frits’s flight to freedom and his fight for metamorphosis. Even the bathos-heavy denouement, which follows a sidesplitting climactic family meal, fail to mute the film’s redemptive power. Frits’s ultimate act of communication mirrors our own, perhaps hidden desire to convey ourselves to what sometimes seems a deaf and uncaring world.

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