Loft (I) (2010) 6.9
Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. Director:Antoinette Beumer |
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Loft (I) (2010) 6.9
Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. Director:Antoinette Beumer |
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Katja Herbers | ... | ||
Marwan Kenzari | ... | ||
Hadewych Minis | ... | ||
Barry Atsma | ... | ||
Raymond Thiry | ... |
Mannelijke ondervrager
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Anna Drijver | ... | ||
Carolien Spoor | ... |
Kimmy Fenneker-de Nijs
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Jeroen van Koningsbrugge | ... |
Willem van Eijk
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Fedja van Huêt | ... |
Bart Fenneker
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Gijs Naber | ... |
Robert Hartman
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Kim van Kooten | ... | ||
Charlie Chan Dagelet | ... |
Linda Fenneker
(as Charlie Dagelet)
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Lies Visschedijk | ... |
Annette van Eijk
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Renee Fokker | ... |
Vrouwelijke ondervrager
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Renée Fokker | ... |
Vrouwelijke ondervrager
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Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The group of friends begin to suspect each other and it soon becomes clear that they know far less about each other than they had initially thought. Written by Anonymous
I keep wondering if it is every man's dream to have a wife and then mistress(es). If they do, don't they keep it as a secret, even to their friends? Why would they share an apartment for their mistresses and conquests? Logistically it seems very difficult to implement.
Anyways, it is this intriguing thought that attracts me into this movie: we have five handsome and successful men and their wives, plus two mistresses and another young woman who is the sister of one of the five men. Then the police. There are simply too many characters to cram into a 108-minute drama, not to mention the different twists in plots.
It is no doubt an interesting suspense story, but the sheer number of characters seems to weaken the character development of the five friends, let alone their relationships with their wives and the friendship among them. There were many other elements the playwright could have explored instead of focusing on the twist of the actual murder. Sometimes I even think the interrogation scenes could have been cut.
A typical suspense movie, it does make us keep suspecting everyone to be the murderer, including the other mistress. Really miss Hitchcock! Ironically both the mistresses look more attractive than the five wives! I wonder if the director did it on purpose
I would love to see the original Loft made in Belgium (in Dutch) in 2008 and look forward to the Hollywood remake (in English) to be released in 2013.