De wondere wereld van Alex van Warmerdam: absurdisme in de eigentijdse Nederlandse film

The wondrous world of Alex van Warmerdam: Absurdism in contemporary Dutcti cinema The main focus of this article is an introduction to the oeuvre of Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam, by concentrating on his first two feature films: Abel (1986) and De noorderlingen (1992). These films, setting a new absurdist trend, signalled the coming-of-age of Dutch cinema. In an article that appeared in 1986 in the then trend-setting cultural magazine De Haagse Post, Van Warmerdam's first film was hailed as “grotesque fool's wisdom,” elevated “to the level of supreme law” whereby “pathetic jerkiness was s... Mehr ...