The Dress
(De jurk)

Screening on Film

Directed by Alex van Warmerdam.
With Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Ariane Schluter.
Holland, 1997, 35mm, color, 103 min.
Dutch with English subtitles.

It’s the old movie conceit of some object passed hand to hand, with a focus on each person who touches it. Here it’s a simple summer dress, which we see from the cotton fields, through production, through a series of random owners. But the stories about the dress are extremely weird, and the film bounces from genre to genre (dry comedy, thriller, neorealism), and with some scenes which simpy defy genre. Creepy and exhilarating, droll and daffy, The Dress shows Americans why filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam, undiscovered here, has become a cult favorite across Europe.

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The Dress
(De jurk)