Loft (I) (2008)

Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.

Director:

Erik Van Looy

Writer:

Bart De Pauw (screenplay)

Stars:

Koen De Bouw, Filip Peeters, Matthias Schoenaerts

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Koen De Bouw	...	Chris Van Outryve
Filip Peeters	...	Vincent Stevens
Matthias Schoenaerts	...	Filip Willems
Bruno Vanden Broecke	...	Luc Seynaeve (as Bruno Vanden Broucke)
Koen De Graeve	...	Marnix Laureys
Veerle Baetens	...	Ann Marai
Tine Reymer	...	Barbara Stevens
An Miller	...	Ellen Van Outryve
Charlotte Vandermeersch	...	Vicky Willems
Wine Dierickx	...	Elsie Seynaeve
Maaike Cafmeyer	...	Miriam Laureys
Marie Vinck	...	Sarah Delporte
Jan Decleir	...	Ludwig Tyberghein
Gene Bervoets	...	Burgemeester Van Esbroeck
Sara de Roo	...	Vrouwelijke ondervrager

Storyline

5 friends who are all married and know each other very well decide to rent a loft together. In this loft they meet their mistresses. Everything is OK until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The 5 friends begin to suspect each other of murder. And it becomes clear that they don't know each other as good as they always thought.

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Plot Keywords:

loft | friend | murder | key | pool | 

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Taglines:

Five friends. One loft. One body.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [Japan]

Country:

Belgium

Language:

Dutch

Release Date:

22 October 2008 (Belgium)

Also Known As:

Loft - Tödliche Affären

Filming Locations:

Research Park, Haasrode, Belgium

Box Office

Budget:

€3,200,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Woestijnvis

Technical Specs

Runtime:

118 min 118 min (European Film Market)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

At a certain moment in the film there is a box with pills visible. The color of the pills are red and white, the colors of Van Looy's favourite soccer team, FC Antwerp.

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Connections

Remade as The Loft (2013)

User Reviews

Engaging Belgian whodunit mystery

Highly recommended Belgian movie Loft (2008), proved to be a very engaging cinematic fare about five married men renting a state-of-the-art loft apartment as a playground for their extramarital affairs and a meeting point for encounters with their mistresses, one of them, eventually, becoming an object of a crime scene, so the initial story about five "allies", plotting together, united around their common gains and benefits, evolves into exciting whodunit puzzle about five "enemies" scheming against each other, divided by their individual excuses and vindication, a group of supposed-to-be friends now going through self-exposing, eye-opening exercise, with a number of revealing-concealing, (un)intentionally deceiving, mystery building flash-backs, leading to a numerous clever twists and turns.