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Soof hits Dutch screens

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- Dutch female comedy Soof, directed by Antoinette Beumer, starts playing in the Netherlands this week

Soof hits Dutch screens
Soof

The latest film of Dutch director Antoinette Beumer, who directed the hit adaptation of the bestseller The Happy Housewife [+see also:
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 with Carice van Houten in 2010, is Soof [+see also:
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 and it’s again an adaptation, this time from a series of columns by Sylvia Witteman, a journalist for daily de Volkskrant that’s headed by her husband, journalist Philippe Remaque.

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The film was released yesterday on an impressive 126 screens, courtesy of Independent Films. (For comparison: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug went out on 220 screens and Saving Mr Banks hit 35 screens.)

Though originally a culinary journalist, Witteman also writes about her own life, with her “roommate P,” as her husband and the father of her three children is called in her columns, also part of the subjects of her frequently funny observations on family life in the 21st century.

The film version was written by actress and occasional screenwriter Marjolein Beumer, the younger sister of both director Antoinette Beumer and X-Men actress Famke Janssen.

Soof tells the story of the titular woman (played by Lies Visschedijk) who tries to start her own catering business and asks her husband (Dutch veteran actor Fedja van Huet) to take care of the kids while she concentrates on her fledgling business. When a handsome choreographer takes an interest in her business, things start to look up professionally but go downhill in her private life.

KeyFilm produced the project in co-production with Millstreet Films. The Netherlands Film Fund backed the film, which co-stars America’s Got Talent choreographer Daniel Karaty, local actress and TV host Chantal Janzen and former Dutch Shooting Star Maryam Hassouni.

Also premiering this week are children’s film sequel Mees Kees op Kamp [+see also:
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, on 121 screens courtesy of eOne Benelux; children’s Christmas film Finn [+see also:
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, on 35 screens from A-Film Benelux; documentary 69: Liefde Seks Senior, on 7 screens from Cinema Delicatessen and documentary Poetins Olympische Droom, released on three screens by Amstel Film.

 

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