Suzy Q (1999)A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it. Director:Martin Koolhoven |
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Suzy Q (1999)A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it. Director:Martin Koolhoven |
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Suzy
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Roeland Fernhout | ... |
Zwier
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Linda van Dyck | ... |
Ruth
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Jack Wouterse | ... |
Ko
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| Michiel Huisman | ... |
Palmer
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Ricky Koole | ... |
Betty
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Kim la Croix | ... |
Hanna
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Cees Geel | ... |
Jimmy
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Andrew Richard | ... | |
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Hugo Koolschijn | ... |
Photographer
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Leonoor Pauw | ... |
Receptionist
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| Halina Reijn | ... |
Prostitute
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Frans de Wit | ... |
Bartender
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Joanne Gomperts | ... |
Girl outside hotel
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A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
'Suzy Q' sure has some stuff going for it. Crazy and fun camera angles (lots of close-ups), colorful characters and a story of intimate family woes (plus a chance meeting with none other than Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful - at least, I'm assuming it's not a dream) in a big Dutch city. But in those very ingredients I missed a lot; the story is more like a clutter of little (unfinished) stories, the characters are rather one dimensional (though the acting is overall pretty good - the young Carice van Houten deserves a special mention) and often over the top in a bad way (the mother and her up beat behavior, the 'wise' guitar playing brother) and at some point I was wishing the director had tried a little less hard to make every next shot 'extra very special'.
Very much a hit-and-miss type of film (a little too much of the latter, unfortunately), yet all in all still worth a watch. 5 out of 10.