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Heart of Darkness (1993)
Not really Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"...
Roeg's take on Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" was not quite what I had expected. Although based on one of history's most studied and interesting texts, the film just became sort of dull. The story just never manages to grasp the viewer. It just comes across as indifferent in a way.
The traces of the text are easily spotted, but still this is not really Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". Benedict Fitzgerald's (who also wrote "The Passion of the Christ") script just uses Conrad as an inspiration, and thus becomes Fitzgerald's "Heart of Darkness". The film is just not worth it, unless you are particularly interested in Conrad or perhaps John Malkovich.
Zusje (1995)
An extremely intelligent and complex film.
Zusje is one of the most intelligent and fascinating films I have ever seen. The way the story is told, the performances, everything about this film is brilliant. The story is gruesome, tragic, and very unpredictable. It leaves you wondering right up to the final scene about what really happened between Daan and Tijn when they were children, and leaves you with an ending nobody could possibly guess. Shocking and fascinating, a film well worth seeing.
Budbringeren (1997)
A classic!
This is a true, modern classic. It starts out as a "look-what-a-s****y-life" type film, but it has more than that! For instance it contains the best ever karaoke-scene on film, and the story is very intelligent and well composed (everything that happens in it is actually somehow connected). It is really a story of love and how messing in other people's business can get you into trouble. The only thing wrong with it is that it is too short...