Jan Wich

국제적 플레이보이 안토안의 집을 봐주게 되다 자의반 타의반으로 전문 플레이보이 세계에 발을 들여놓게 된 수족관 청소부인 듀스 비갈로. 아직도 직업 접대부로서 풋내기인 듀스 비갈로는 아내를 잃고 방황하던 중 그의 전 포주이자 친구인 티제이의 연락을 받고 네덜란드로 향한다. 그러나 그 곳에서 최고의 지골로로 손꼽히는 자가 살해당하는 사건이 일어나고 그 와중에 친구인 티제이가 지골로 살인범의 누명을 쓰고 경찰에 쫓기게 된다. 이에 듀스는 친구의 누명을 벗겨 주기 위해 직접 살인범을 찾아 나서게 된다. 지골로 세계로 다시 뛰어든 듀스 비갈로. 그는 살인 사건을 추적하던 중 자신이 몰랐던 사실을 알게 된다. 바로 은밀한 지골로들만의 사교집단이 있다는 것. 살인 사건을 해결하기 위해 그곳에 들어가지만 그 사회에서 자신의 위치는 매우 낮아 무시와 비웃음만 산다. 듀스 비갈로는 이에 아랑곳 하지 않고 범인을 잡기 위해 살해 당한 지골로의 고객들을 만나며 단서를 찾아 다닌다. 듀스 비갈로는 친구 티제이의 누명을 벗길 살인범을 찾아 사건을 해결할 수 있을 것인가?

The importance of the Atelier as a meeting and working-place for independent or beginning filmmakers is highlighted in Last days of Studio Frans van de Staak a necrology of his films by Kees Hin (2002), which focuses mainly on Van de Staak's non-naturalistic style of directing actors.

The protagonist in the film is an actor (René van het Hof) who is acting his life. He is a nuisance, but only for those who have had enough of his play acting or who are ashamed to be around this clown. His wife breaks up with him because she just can't tolerate the man any more and he seems to accept that in an apparently matter-of-fact way. He leaves the city for a cottage in the countryside.

An actress and an actor overhear parts of the play "Three Travelers Watch Sunrise" by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three [Chinese] travelers and the girl [Anna] are spoken as a monologue by the actress. The actor just listens but occasionally he gives her instructions.

Every scene of the film comprises a dialogue between a man and a woman. The dialogues are fragmentary, in other words, the dialogue in one scene does not tie in with that of the next. In addition there is no development in the relationship between the actor and the actress towards a happy or unhappy ending. The dialogues are not only of substantial interest; it is above all material for the actors. The film balances on the boundary between portraying an intimate relationship between a woman and a man and the intimacy in the acting between the actor and actress. When an actor or actress hardly has any words in a scene, he or she portrays loneliness; when he/she has a monologue, then the attention is focused on speaking the text, on (the reflection about) being an actor. (Wim Schlebaum

Tragicomedy about two brothers who married two sisters, walking the streets of Deventer at night lamenting the fact that each should have married the other one's wife.

The film is adapted from a play by Cyrille Offermans Lichtenberg, scenes at the dawn of a new era". Although the protagonist shares some features with the experimental physicist and writer George Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), who wrote the famous Sudelbücher and numerous letters, the film does not pretend any historical accuracy with respect to the real Lichtenberg, but focuses on Offermans' hybrid [partial fictitious] personage. The result is not an interplay between fact and fiction, but a sort of view of Lichtenberg, mouthing some 19th- and 20th- century authors he couldn't have known, strictly speaking, but whose alleged fantastic formulations seem to follow from his own writings in a natural way.

A tasty, vulgar, low-budget, urban road movie about a satirical drawn art environment with great impromptu renditions and Peter Falk detective pastiche Wingers to lick your thumbs and fingers. The American-Dutch psychiatrist Bold Wasser plays in his role as Detective Scotty all professional actors of the cloth. Long plan sequence shots give the film an almost documentary, authentic appearance.