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IMDb provides information about Alex van Warmerdam, a Dutch actor, writer and director. He is known for his roles in Waiter, Borgman and The Northerners, among others.
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- Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Alex van Warmerdam (born 14 August 1952) is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter.
Aug 29, 2013 · Borgman: Directed by Alex van Warmerdam. With Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen. A vagrant enters the lives of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Alex van Warmerdam
- 2013-08-29
- Austere Architecture with Square Windows
- Fear of Meaning
- Averse to Psychology
- Pervaded with Role-Playing
- Ambivalent Abnormality
- An Actually Funny Version of Funny Games
- Middle-Of-The-Road Absurdism
According to Warmerdam, as stated in the television documentary series Allemaal Film (4), the Netherlands has a firm tradition of a Calvinist variant of Christianity. Whereas the cinema of Federico Fellini bears evidence that Italians idolize a baroque and exuberant Catholicism, van Warmerdam claims the Calvinist variant is austere and scanty. Symp...
In Allemaal film, van Warmerdam mentions that he was surprised that people do not consider the film a Christian movie, despite the austere architecture, the role of Saint Francis and the adoration for Martha. It is doubtful, however, that he is serious about his surprise. The Calvinist form of Christianity in which Dutch culture is embedded, accord...
Van Warmerdam tends to shoot relatively straightforwardly and prefers the use hard cuts, deep focus and elliptical editing. At the end of Kleine Teun (Little Tony, 1998) a husband murders his wife, but the act of killing is only shown obliquely. From inside a house through the window we see him raise an axe, but the woman is slain off-screen. In pr...
The starting point of a van Warmerdam film is often fairly ordinary, or so it seems. A family having Christmas dinner in Abel; a waiter serving patrons in a restaurant in Ober (Waiter, 2006), or a household watching while a woman is eating her meal, as in De laatste dagen van Emma Blank. Soon, the identifiable setting takes a slightly bizarre turn,...
At the core of the grotesque, according to Philip Thomson in his study on the concept, is an ‘unresolved clash of incompatibles in work and response’, which is only a fairly abstract description of the formal pattern of the grotesque, but he also argues that the grotesque concerns the ‘ambivalently abnormal’ (11)‘Abnormal’ is the outlandish juxtapo...
In comparison to the films immediately preceding it, (Ober and De laatste dagen van Emma), Borgman is a bit more macabre, but without losing its comic tone entirely. After its premiere at Cannes, reviewers made connections to films such as Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (Theorem, 1968), Kim Ki-duk’s Bin-jip (3 Iron, 2004), Dominik Moll’s Lemming (20...
In reply to the question of why van Warmerdam made Borgman, he answered: “I felt like making a horror film. Or rather something along that line.” Borgman is a typical Warmerdam film in the sense that as soon as one might expect to watch a genre film with some social purport, he will frustrate that expectation. Out of his ‘fear of meaning’, he bends...
- Peter Verstraten
Alexander Lucas Maria (Alex) van Warmerdam (Haarlem, 14 augustus 1952) is een Nederlands acteur, film-en toneelregisseur, schrijver, dichter, schilder en vormgever.
Dutch artist, filmmaker, actor, and writer Alex van Warmerdam has a diverse practice; working across multiple mediums he has established a distinctive voice as one of the Netherland’s most renowned filmmakers.
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Alex van Warmerdam. Highest Rated: 87% Borgman (2013) Lowest Rated: 70% Schneider vs. Bax (2015) Birthday: Aug 14, 1952. Birthplace: Haarlem, The Netherlands. Alex van Warmerdam was a Dutch...
