Movies: Moniek Toebosch
- 1978
The Mantle of Love (1978)
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De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general....
- 1982
The Hes Case (1982)
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Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her co...
- 1985
Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination (1985)
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The actual life and the fiction created by a successful pulp author begin to blend together....
- 1970
Behind Your Walls (1970)
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Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like crisp paper about to be despoiled, a torpid heat reduces movement to fidgets and hesitations. - MIFF...
- 1970
Spectator (1970)
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Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between husband and wife. It is a relationship that is strongly marked by power and domination, sexual attraction a...
- 1979
Pentimento (1979)
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In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another. "Pentimento" is an art-historical term for a hidden image underneath the actual image giving an indic...
- 1969
Spare Bed-Room (1969)
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An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple....
- 2006
The Great Magician (2006)
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"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the American essayist Susan Sontag....
- 1992
Beyond (1992)
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Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees....
- 1974
Bedsitters (1974)
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Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space by using a ‘floating’ camera to film a number of crawling, creeping personages. (MUBI)...
- 1973
Audition (1973)
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Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with his brother Rudolf and Lodewijk de Boer. Audition is a fine example of a Zwartjes film with an importan...
- 1968
Dolls (1968)
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An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes....
- 1970
Through the Garden and Into the Living (1970)
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Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series Home Sweet Home....
- 1970
Seats Two (1970)
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Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of the film's editing and the tactile quality of the images. - MIFF...
- 1969
Eating (1969)
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Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal....