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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Then, this film came out, I’m certain, inside the 80’s. I forget the name or whom is inside it, yet what i do remember are certain scenes along with a standard plot. There is this young teenager that is a sorcerer however, he hasn’t completely mastered his magic. Next an wicked sorcerer comes inside, takes over his father’s kingdom plus the boy flees. While running he comes over a washed up knight/warrior sort whom assists the boy receive into the castle where the kid has a one-on-one magic duel with all the sorcerer plus ends up winning.
Anyways, here are a limited scenes I remember:
1) The boy, at the beginning, manages to bring to lifetime a stone gargoyle that sings to him (thanks the inexpensive effects of the time, the gargoyle looks like he’s made from styrafoam.)
2) The warrior plus boy have to travel from the dark cave whenever they are attacked by the ghosts. The guy starts to sing rather severely plus ends up driving all ghosts away.
3) At the finish, the boy plus the sorcerer have this duel where every are standing on a separate tower of the castle. They start to castle spells back plus forth (again, that’s the inexpensive effects, the “spells” are basically all simply cartoons).
Anyways, that’s all I may remember plus I would appreciate any aid figuring out the name of the movie. Thanks!