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Dutch Movie Review – Buitenspel & De Hel van Tanger

February 25th, 2009 · 13 Comments

hel van tangerI have been watching a lot of TV and movies recently to improve my Dutch. “How does that work?” – you may be asking.

Well what I normally do is watch English language TV series like 24, Lost and Prison Break. I download the subtitles from NLOndertitels and this is great for improving my grammar and vocabulary. I even keep a pad handy for jotting down new words. Plus these programs feature a lot of everyday spoken commands and responses so I think this will help me with regular communication.

Much harder to get hold of are Dutch language films. But I have recently found myself a very good source and have been watching a few. Actually, the Dutch movie industry is pretty lacking and does not produce many films at all. In contrast, the Belgian movie industry releases a lot of Flemish movies and TV programs. Now of course they speak a little different to the Dutch and I do find it harder to understand them but this is still a worthwhile exercise – of course I switch the English subtitles on.

Buitenspel

The first movie I watched was Buitenspel (literally means “offside”). This is a movie about a kid, Gilles, and his relationship with his father. The kid is a pretty good striker in his youth team and he wants to make it to the top, to play for the “Rode Duivels” i.e. the Belgian national team.

For some reason I thought that the “Rode Duivels” were Antwerp maybe and it took me a while to realise it was the national team! Anyway, this is a great movie, I enjoyed it a lot. It is not really about the football but if you are a football fan then there are some interesting aspects to the film that only a fan would recognise.

By the way, I tried watching this with both English and Dutch subtitles at the same time. It was bloody difficult, I’m telling you! What I might do is to watch it again but with only Dutch subtitles so I can practice my speaking and listening. And with the original understanding of the film already in my brain, maybe it will help me to make a natural assimilation of the language.

One of the main characters is the father figure who is played by Pieter Van Hees. I did not know this at the time but I believe that he is actually a pretty famous Flemish actor. The mother figure in the film is played by Joke Devynck. I’ve gotta say that she is one amazing hottie! If you like your MILFs (and I normally don’t) then you will want to check her out! :D

De Hel van Tanger

The second film I watched was De Hel van Tanger. Anyone can easily guess what the title means and judging by the DVD cover I figured that this would be one of those “banged up abroad” type films.

Anyway, it is loosely based on a real event – I don’t want to reveal too much about the film but it is amazing! I cannot believe what this guy went through it is quite unbelievable. It is sometimes compared to Midnight Express but I have not seen the latter film so I cannot comment. All I can say is that De Hel van Tanger is a damn good film in its own right. For example, at one point I had the tears in my eyes, that’s how moving this film was!

Oh and here’s the weird thing – Pieter Van Hees was the main star in De Hel van Tanger! I did not even realise this until halfway through the film beacuse because he looked totally different. I heard his signature gravel-like voice and had a moment of deja-vu!

I highly suggest you check out the Flemish film industry. I am looking forward to watching more films. One I am halfway through at the moment (I had to stop watching because I was so damn tired!) is BenX – this is very, very off the wall but intriguing.

Have you seen any good Dutch language films lately? Please leave a comment if you have!

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13 responses so far ↓

  • 1 kari // Nov 9, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    hi, please could you tell me how do you get the subtitles from the NLOndertitels website to play with films?? its all in dutch so I don’t understand it!..

  • 2 Chris // Nov 12, 2009 at 8:11 am

    Hey Kari, sure. It’s quite easy.

    Go to http://www.nlondertitels.com/
    Type what you’re looking for e.g. buitenspel
    Click “download”, to download.
    You get an .SRT file. Sometimes you need to decompress a .rar file (get winrar from winrar.com) to get to it.
    A good media player will allow you to add subtitles, easiest is to drag and drop the .SRT file into the movie. I use KMPlayer.
    Other subtitle sites are allsubs.org, opensubtitles.org and subtitlesnl.com. Sometimes its better searching via google for the srt file for a movie.

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