Loft (2008/I)

Director:

Erik Van Looy

Writer:

Bart De Pauw (screenplay)

Release Date:

22 October 2008 (Belgium)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

Five friends. One loft. One body.

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Loft | Friend | Murder | Key | Dead Body

Cast

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

Runtime:

Germany:118 min (European Film Market)

Country:

Belgium

Language:

Flemish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Belgium:KT | Japan:R15+

Filming Locations:

Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

Company:

Woestijnvis

Trivia:

In Erik Van Looy's previous movie "De Zaak Alzheimer", one of the main characters who got killed was driving a BMW with license plate "IGO 469" (I go for 69). The same car with the same license plate is used in the closing scene of "Loft" where the character Luc Seynaeve drops dead on a car.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "De wereld draait door: (#4.105)" (2009)

Loft - what can you expect when five men share an apartment?

What you can expect from this movie is a lot. First of all it's a thriller whodonit which last 2 hours. At the end of the movie you feel like is this over already??? That's a bloody good sign.

And then there's a lot more... five men share a loft where they meet their fancy women (read mistresses), they all have different personalities and that's a lot to take in a movie, but they are so well pictured and so well drawn in the script(Bart De Pauw) that they all become our friends sooner or later. Then include the wives and the mistresses, it's a real challenge to think who DID it.

Apart from that and without giving out any clues, it's so well acted, and the LOFT where most of the scenes are shot feels like a tremendous dangerous being. The LOFT has an extra role in this movie, believe me.

This movie, as a good friend told me, is not "The Usual Suspects" but it's close... very close. I thought about this a lot and then I think of course it is not the Usual Suspects, nobody wants a remake of that movie.

Loft is different but you will like the characters, not one second bores you except maybe the knife combat which takes a bit too long.

I especially enjoyed the Düsseldorf bar and the Casino scene. Great cinematography.

For people who enjoyed this I recommend the movie "Shades" with Mickey Rourke, I preferred this one a lot more than The Alzheimer Affair. But then, that's me...