Brasserie Valentijn (2016)

An average movie

“Since my wife always had a weak spot for such Dutch romantic-comedies, I thought we might as well check this one out together. Well, even though I didn’t have some huge expectations, I thought this movie still turned out to be seriously underwhelming. What bothered me the most was how fake it was. Seriously, they started the damned thing with a visually ambitious introduction with a terribly fake pigeon. Then, the whole thing took place in one restaurant, which wasn’t really a bad idea, but it was so obvious that the damned thing was just a movie set, it was just so unconvincing. Then, even though it took place in a restaurant, they never displayed any cooking, or at least, one of the dishes, reinforcing the general fake feeling (for example, ‘Chef’ was maybe not a masterpiece but” read more