Zus & zo
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Zus & zo description
Like a Dutch version of Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, Zus & Zo explores the messy lives of three frustrated sisters. While Sonja struggles with her writing career, her husband Hugo is having an affair with her artist sister Wanda, and their sister Michelle raises a brood of adopted children. When their brother Nino announces that he's getting married, the sisters are stunned--not only did they think he was gay, but the marriage means that he'll inherit a seaside hotel in Portugal that each sister believes is rightly hers. The sisters scheme to disrupt the marriage, unaware that it may already be collapsing. The characters of Zus & Zo are not the most likable lot, but that's the movie's strength; it looks unblinkingly, but with forgiveness and humor, at some very difficult personalities. The wealth of dysfunction on display ensures that you'll identify with someone. --Bret Fetzer |
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not great by any stretch of the imagination
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| Back when I was considering a move to Holland or Belgium and was immersing myself in the Dutch language, I got my hands on this film, hoping for the best. Generally, I have enjoyed Dutch cinema, so this was actually quite disappointing. It is not that this was a terrible film; the story was actually fairly interesting. A group of busy, very different sisters conspire to sabotage their brother's upcoming nuptials in order to safeguard a family property (he will inherit it if he marries). Having believed for years that the property was safe (because the brother was widely perceived to be gay) the sisters are shocked and band together, despite their very obvious and frequent differences. Overall not a one of the characters here is very likeable, and though I applaud films that take a candid look at real people with real personalities (likeable or not), this one just rubbed me the wrong way. It's watchable but not great by any means. |
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