Wanted: Man
(Gezocht: Man)
83 minutes, 2005
Fri. Oct 13, 7:00PM, Throckmorton
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Sun. Oct 15, 11:00AM, Rafael
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FOCUS: THE NETHERLANDS • Nine-year old Bas is not like other kids: He performs tasks obsessively, recites the poisonous capacities of rare fish and dresses for school in snorkeling gear. He also loves and worries about his mother Rosalie, who is still emotionally wounded by Bas's father's abandonment of the family. Intent on resuscitating his mother's romantic life, Bas places a classified ad. Shocked by her precocious son's bold gesture, Rosalie begins to come to terms with her fractured family and to imagine a love life that makes room for her eccentric son. Produced for Dutch television, Wanted: Man looks like nothing on American network TV: Prolonged periods of melancholic silence are punctuated by bursts of serene tenderness and rambunctious joy. Director Patrice Toye uses grainy Super-8mm footage to underscore significant moments in this extraordinary mother and son relationship, two people trying to come up for air after foundering in a sea of sadness. — A. Lazenby
Director: Patrice Toye
Producer: Wilant Boekelman, Jan van der Zanden
Screenwriter: Helena van der Meulen
Cinematographer: Richard Van Oosterhout
Editor: J.P. Luijsterburg
Cast: Monic Hendrickx Tom van Seijen Kitty Courbois Johan Heldenbergh Frieda Pittoors
Print Source:
Waterland Film & TV
de Kempenaerstraat 11A
Amsterdam, 1051
Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 68 22 164
