Sextet Reviews

Since I really loved 'Simon' which is one of my favorite Dutch movies, I was really eager to check Eddy Terstall's following directing feature. Well, whereas 'Simon' was a masterful but rather standard drama, this time, Terstall came jup with a rather experimental feature around sex. Unfortunately, this experminent was a failure. Indeed, Terstall mixes various stories in a mozaic style and using various movie techniques. Even though the subject and approach were really interesting, the end result was still rather disappointing, I'm afraid. Indeed, the acting was never really convincing, it was sometimes decent but it was often rather weak (Katja Schuurman was the worst example) but they were not really helped by the pretentious dialogues. There was also an obvious wish to shock the audience, above all with the weird and almost offensive animated sections. The point is that ever since 'Turks Fruit' became a huge success, there has always been a lot of nudity and sex in the Dutch movies but the makers never make really clear if they want to study sexuality in the Dutch society, sexuality in the Dutch movies or just to be rather exploitative about the whole thing. Anyway, to conclude, it was a rather disappointing experiment but I still think it is worth a look though, especially if you are interested in Dutch movies.