Antonia's Line (Antonia) (1995)

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Ever since I have been living in the Netherlands, I have tried to watch a lot of Dutch movies and I was especially intrigued by this one since it won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. The funny thing is while it received international acclaim, it was actually snubbed in its home country as ‘Zusje’ eventually won the Golden Calf of the Best Dutch movie of the year (in my opi... read more

Antonia's Line (Fox Lorber) is a wonderfully eccentric film about an extended household of women that demonstrates the values of feminine friendship, independence, intuition, and hospitality. In an anonymous Dutch village, the sturdy, strong-willed matriarch looks back upon her life, the generations of family and friends gathered around her table, and ponders the cyclical nature of time.