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Bart De Pauw (screenplay)
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22 October 2008 (Belgium)
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Five friends. One loft. One body.
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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. full summary | full synopsis
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Fangoria to be celebrated at Spain’s Sitges film fest
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(From Fangoria. 24 September 2009, 9:52 PM, PDT)
Sitges 2009 Complete Lineup
(From SoundOnSight. 19 September 2009, 12:48 AM, PDT)
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A more than worthy follow-up to 'The Memory of a Killer', reminds me of those great stylized keep you guessing thrillers of the '90s such as The Game.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Koen De Bouw | ... | Chris Van Outryve | |
| Filip Peeters | ... | Vincent Stevens | |
| Matthias Schoenaerts | ... | Filip Willems | |
| Bruno Vanden Broucke | ... | Luc Seynaeve | |
| 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 |
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Germany:118 min (European Film Market)
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'Loft' is currently the most attended movie in Belgian cinematic history. About 1,082,500 people have watched it, making it jump over Belgian classic Koko Flanel (1990). The latter had an attendance of 1,082,000 viewers. With it's first place, Loft has also leaped over two other Flemish classics: Hector (3rd) and Daens (4th place).
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Featured in "De wereld draait door: (#4.105)" (2009)
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The movie takes a while to pick up steam but soon enough the director takes us on exactly the kind of roller-coaster ride we want out of a whodunit thriller. The story's very sly and just when you think you've figured it all out, it slips away from you, it's like trying to hold on to a wet bar of soap. Van Looy's greatest accomplishment is avoiding the sin most of the movies in this genre make: neglect the characters. Without losing pace, we manage to really get to know the pawns in our chess game, and as each one's motivations start to sink in, even the most unlikely become suspect.
We see here assembled a who's who of Belgian stars, the dream team cast, even the smaller roles are given to top class actors (Jan Decleir). The film's lighter on it's feet than Van Looy's previous, we (on first sight) get to deal with far less tortured souls, which makes some room for humorous intervals, I fear a lot of these will get lost in translation.
As in all stories, but even more so in plot-driven thrillers, the end's the most important part. It delights me that they didn't choose a ridiculous, nonsensical ending as so much postmodern thrillers shamelessly do these days. I can't give anything away of course, but I for one didn't see it coming at all and yet it adds up when you replay previous scenes in your head.
Go see it, it merits national and international attention.