Reviews

Shocking and very sad. A real disturbing episode of one of my favorite Detective Series. I have seen many of them, but I will wait long to see the end of George Gently. By the way: Gently with the innocents hit me the hardest. And things come back from my own past, I can so feel with this story.

As many of the other reviewers, I , who really love this excellent series, was appalled and also distracted by this very very bad director, who seemed more keen to show his arty farty vision of how to visualize a detective story then that he was interested in the actors and the story itself. Indeed, lots of glasreflections, windows and extreme and unnecessary close ups; A real bummer, this one !! Sad to say.

A charming little comedy that will be appreciated especially by Europeans, who will recognize the little punches more then a world wide audience, who are accustomed to the way Hollywood movies fed their audiences. Not his best work, but nicely executed and with good performances of Albert Mol and Kees Brusse (amongst others) Remarkable is the good sound quality of the dialogues, often a real pain in the ass for Dutch audiences to hear , and even be able to understand. Camerawork very proper with some nice jokes in it, simple story, nicely done.

For now, I have watched this movie at least 12 times in movie theaters, bought the movie on DVD, and feel compelled to watch it more and more; seen it over 30 times, because I experienced sudden death in mij own life; I know Anna's mother had no sudden death, but I feel empathy. This movie breaks your heart, but gives you so much insight in what happened during dictatorship of franco, but especially the story of Anna, who is confused between loyalty and rage because of death of her mother. but the movie storyline has so much more to offer; the death of Anna's father the consequences for Anna, who saw the copulation, Anna who is very vulnarable, and has her own trophy's to be secured (the death of her pet hamster) Anna's longing and seeing her mother, while she knows her mother died, Her planning to take revenge on the person she thinks is the cause of all her grievance Her empathy with her Grandmother;. This is really my favorite movie: Cast, Characters, Script, Cinematography : the eyes of Ana Torrent haunts me until today, because I understand these eyes. Of course the blink in her eyes has been artificially done, but it works so strong and gives the character so much feeling expressed, without any talking. This movie scratched my heart, the face of Ana will never disappear, like also appreciation of director Carlos Saura: What a wonderfull, moving movie !!

The story is weak. The Dutch synchronisation is one of the worst in Dutch moviemaking. Maria Schneider obviously had also no faith in this project, considering her very poor performance. Even Monique vd Ven, a well known and appreciated actress had no good , believable lines, and was not fit to this already poorly written scenario. Pity for Maria Schneider: If this feminist director would have watched the movie : Profession, Reporter from Antonioni, she would have learned that a male director good do much more with a feminist theme. Waste of time to watch this movie !

Appalled bij seeing pictures of a pretty young girl in cinemapromotion, only to draw more people to this very mediocre movie, directed by a self pronounced feminist director. Mind you, not appalled by the pictures, but by the way this female director made "this movie". . It is not even a mediocre coming of age movie, it is pure exploitation from a director who wanted obviously to make a big name with this movie. That she casted her own daughter as well in this movie also does not help at all. Pure garbage !!