Fifteen years after Peter Delpeuts Felice, Felice the International Film Festival Rotterdam gets another Dutch opening. The 42nd edition of this leading event will kick off on 23 January with the world premiere of The resurrection of an asshole by Guido van Driel, festival director Rutger Wolfson announced this afternoon.
Van Driel based this history described by Wolfson as "dark, disturbing and magical ' on his own acclaimed graphic novel Om mekaar in Dokkum from 2004. Yorick van Wageningen plays one of the leading roles. Jeroen Willems, sadly lost to us recently, can be seen in a supporting role. The resurrection of an asshole has also been selected for the Tiger competition.
One of the programme elements Wolfson highlighted at the presentation was Changing Channels, which highlights the relationship between film and television. Television has long been looked down upon in cinephile circles, but in the United States in particular, television has increasingly become the place to find the most interesting filmmakers. There we find the ideas and creative talents that have been driven off the cinema screen by blockbusters and romantic comedies. In other countries, too, we see filmmakers discovering the space offered by television. With ever larger screens, the viewing experience at home is also getting better and better.
In this context, Rotterdam shows, among others, the crime series set in drug circles Profugos by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain. In 2009, Larrain was awarded the Dutch Film Critics' Prize for his chilling Tony Manero, in which an unaccountable and impotent disco dancer depicts the spirit of dictatorship. Also in Profugos again, all kinds of aspects of Chilean society creep into the crime story.
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