Hugo Haenen
Life Is Wonderful is a feel-good movie about love and longing. Best friends Mees and Boelie are spending a beautiful spring day in Amsterdam's Vondelpark. It seems like just a normal day, until they meet the young and attractive Panda. While the heat rises in the park, it's nowhere to be found between the long-married couple Etta and Ernst-Jan. Ernst-Jan suspects Etta of cheating and has his own ideas of how to catch her in the act. We also meet Rosa and Kees, old lovers whose paths cross after decades of not seeing each other. On this spring day in Amsterdam, their love starts blooming again.
In Radeloos heeft Yara al een poosje een oogje op Paco, die bij haar op school zit en als DJ plaatjes draait op feesten. Maar Paco heeft wat met Floor en ziet haar niet staan. Komt het misschien omdat ze te dik is? Yara's moeder wil dat haar dochter fotomodel wordt maar eigenlijk wil Yara naar de kunstacademie. Ze besluit af te vallen door minder te gaan eten. Zo slaat ze twee vliegen in één klap:
The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.
Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.
