It cannot have been a difficult choice. Alex van Warmerdam's feature film Borgman had already made it through to the Cannes competition earlier this year. Now this dark, wry-comic thriller has been chosen as the Dutch entry for the 86th Academy Awards (the Oscars) in the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category.
In Borgman, Jan Bijvoet plays an enigmatic stranger who suddenly arrives in a villa district and sets in motion a series of disturbing events.
Borgman was...
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