On paper, the plot of this slow-moving Dutch erotic thriller looks like one of those Joe Eszterhas scripts that became slick Hollywood movies ("Jagged Edge", "Sliver"), but in production values it resembles more the straight-to-video Shannon Tweed vehicles of the early 1990s. The strong, sensuous Soutendijk gives it a big lift; the bathtub masturbation sequence is an instant turn-on! (and, in an amusing twist, it is the kid that catches the parent in the act). ** out of 4.
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socrates47 March 2019The story starts out good, but that only lasts for so long. Halfway through it starts to get a little boring. It drags at times. Being a Dutch film, the actors are all ones I've never seen before, but all the performances feel solid and believable.
It's a mystery film of sorts, and the mystery starts out very intriguing, but they payoff isn't all that great. Overall, there are some very good things about this film, but it just feels too long and slow. It could have been tightened up a little bit and used a rewrite or two. Do not recommend. -
The only reason I saw "De Flat", was because of the fact that Victor Löw is in it. In Holland he's a pretty famous actor, an known as the only method actor we have got (hay, it's a small country). The day this film was on also Oliver Stone's Wall Street, and The Devil's Advocate came on tv, but no, I had to see "De Flat", when I saw it, it looked like a really bad B-movie, and that is, when I thought about it, exactly what it is. Both actors are pretty good, but in this movie they both don't know what the hell they are doing there. Even Victor Löw, who's known as a verbal machine gun, doesn't come out of his own words, and that draws the whole movie
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mitt-230 March 1999A tight thriller set in a new apartment block by the sea in Holland. The film concerns the relationships between a doctor who runs a practice in the block, one of her patients and one of the residents. To give more of the plot away would destroy the enjoyment to be had from from this film. Particularly well portrayed is the sexual tension which exists between two of these characters and the way it erupts into sometimes consensual and sometimes non-consensual violence. The combination of fear and desire is palpable, and portrayed in a way Hollywood could never accept. The conclusion is seemingly obvious and yet somehow we refuse to believe it until the very end. A very nicely directed, tight thriller. The version I saw was Dutch with English subtitles. It would probably lose a fair bit if it were dubbed into American English.