The movie started GREAT, but after the first 20 minutes it became a rather SLOW movie with SLOW suspense or not knowing WHERE the movie is heading to...
Stef Aerts DID a great personification of his character; I had my doubts of Matteo Simoni's role, since I consider him also a GREAT actor, but his part in this movie is rather 'small' and IMHO not so meaning'full' (Hence the title 'Wil' of the movie referring to Stef's role, but nonetheless though)...
Gene Bervoets' role may be small, but yet again SUBLIME! He's VERY GOOD in putting down different characters.
I consider the WHOLE movie some sort of events of strange 'coincidences' that in real life (back then or now) would NEVER work(ed)! But yet again, it's based on a FICTION BOOK, so you can write whatever FICTION you like; in some way you can ALWAYS make it 'work'... You can't compare with NON-FICTION stories like "The Pianist" or "Schindler's List". These movies DO make SENSE, because THEY HAPPENED as-is! This one DOESN'T/DIDN'T!
As said by Samuel-L-Bergmans; the story is idd IMHO quite thin and the cinematography is idd very well done. Visually it was satisfying, but the storyline was IMHO BORING and not cohesive!
The music score was also idd very good!
Also casting 'half of ALL BEST KNOWN Flemish actors' (sort of speaking!) for small parts in this movie was IMHO unnecessary!
Better to spend time casting lesser known actors and giving them also a GOOD chance to 'break-through' for such role...
As of a detail; the outside scenes for this movie should have happened in the city of Antwerp, but MANY outside-scenes weren't filmed in Antwerp; the buildings in Antwerp NEVER had those kind of building constructions/style; I immediately had a Eastern-Europe building style in mind... Until I saw the end credits/titles referring to Poland. ;-)
I consider the WHOLE movie some sort of events of strange 'coincidences' that in real life (back then or now) would NEVER work(ed)! But yet again, it's based on a FICTION BOOK, so you can write whatever FICTION you like; in some way you can ALWAYS make it 'work'... You can't compare with NON-FICTION stories like "The Pianist" or "Schindler's List". These movies DO make SENSE, because THEY HAPPENED as-is! This one DOESN'T/DIDN'T!
As said by Samuel-L-Bergmans; the story is idd IMHO quite thin and the cinematography is idd very well done. Visually it was satisfying, but the storyline was IMHO BORING and not cohesive!
The music score was also idd very good!
Also casting 'half of ALL BEST KNOWN Flemish actors' (sort of speaking!) for small parts in this movie was IMHO unnecessary!
Better to spend time casting lesser known actors and giving them also a GOOD chance to 'break-through' for such role...
As of a detail; the outside scenes for this movie should have happened in the city of Antwerp, but MANY outside-scenes weren't filmed in Antwerp; the buildings in Antwerp NEVER had those kind of building constructions/style; I immediately had a Eastern-Europe building style in mind... Until I saw the end credits/titles referring to Poland. ;-)