Loft (I) (2010)

Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment.

Director:

Antoinette Beumer

Writers:

Bart De Pauw (screenplay), Saskia Noort (screenplay)

Stars:

Anna Drijver, Barry Atsma, Katja Herbers

3 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Anna Drijver	...	Ann Marai
Barry Atsma	...	Matthias Stevens
Katja Herbers	...	Marjolein Hartman
Kim van Kooten	...	Nathalie Stevens
Raymond Thiry	...	Mannelijke ondervrager
Fedja van Huêt	...	Bart Fenneker
Hadewych Minis	...	Eva Fenneker
Sallie Harmsen	...	Sarah Lunter
Carolien Spoor	...	Kimmy Fenneker-de Nijs
Charlie Dagelet	...	Linda Fenneker
Renée Fokker	...	Vrouwelijke ondervrager
Gijs Naber	...	Robert Hartman
Jeroen van Koningsbrugge	...	Willem van Eijk
Tom Jansen	...	Anton de Nijs
Rik Launspach	...	Wethouder Roijers

Storyline

Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The group of friends begin to suspect each other and it soon becomes clear that they know far less about each other than they had initially thought.

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Plot Keywords:

loft | friend | secret | blackmail | male frontal nudity | 

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Taglines:

Five friends. One deadly secret.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch

Release Date:

16 December 2010 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Kéjlak

Filming Locations:

Muziekgebouw Aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Company Credits

Production Co:

Millstreet Films, Pupkin Film, Woestijnvis

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Antoinette Beumer and five other crew members were badly injured in an accident on set, when a scaffold of over 9 feet high collapsed. She ended up with a broken arm and a broken jaw. For a few scenes Beumer was replaced by 'Erik van Looy', the director of the original Loft who was initially going to direct this remake as well. She made an amazingly quick recovery and resumed directorial duties after only a few weeks. Afterwards, she admitted that she could not see the differences between her scenes and the ones shot by van Looy.

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Connections

Remake of Loft (2008)

User Reviews

Men's dream turned into nightmare

I keep wondering if it is every man's dream to have a wife and then mistress(es). If they do, don't they keep it as a secret, even to their friends? Why would they share an apartment for their mistresses and conquests? Logistically it seems very difficult to implement.

Anyways, it is this intriguing thought that attracts me into this movie: we have five handsome and successful men and their wives, plus two mistresses and another young woman who is the sister of one of the five men. Then the police. There are simply too many characters to cram into a 108-minute drama, not to mention the different twists in plots.

It is no doubt an interesting suspense story, but the sheer number of characters seems to weaken the character development of the five friends, let alone their relationships with their wives and the friendship among them. There were many other elements the playwright could have explored instead of focusing on the twist of the actual murder. Sometimes I even think the interrogation scenes could have been cut.

A typical suspense movie, it does make us keep suspecting everyone to be the murderer, including the other mistress. Really miss Hitchcock! Ironically both the mistresses look more attractive than the five wives! I wonder if the director did it on purpose…

I would love to see the original Loft made in Belgium (in Dutch) in 2008 and look forward to the Hollywood remake (in English) to be released in 2013.