How Do I Survive…Myself out on 93 screens
By far the biggest release on Dutch screens this week is Nicole van Kilsdonk’s How Do I Survive…Myself? (Hoe overleef ik… mezelf?), the first big-screen adaptation of the popular How Do I Survive… series of youth novels from Francine Oomen.
The film tells the story of Rosa (newcomer Jolijn van de Wiel), a 13-year-old girl from the Catholic south who finds it hard to adapt to life after she has moved up north with her divorced mother (Janni Goslinga), her mother’s new boyfriend (whom she secretly calls Monkey Ass on account of his hairy behind) and her newborn half-brother. When she takes on a new identity as the tagger Rooz, things start to brighten up.
How Do I Survive… Myself? is Van Kilsdonk’s second feature film for the cinema after a successful start in television and the football tale Johan from 2005. The film was produced by BosBros, with backing of the CoBo Fund, broadcaster NPS and the Dutch Film Fund. Warner Bros Netherlands opens the film on 93 screens this week.
Besides Van Kilsdonk’s film, there is another Dutch film aiming for the youth demographic that opens this week: Steven de Jong’s Snuf De Hond In Oorlogstijd (“Snuf the Dog in Wartime” – see news). RCV Entertainment premieres the film, set during and just after WWII, on 64 screens.
Other European fare opening in the Netherlands today includes Olivier Assayas’ inheritance drama Summer Time, featuring Juliette Binoche, Jérémie Renier and Charles Berling, distributed by A-Film; and Martin McDonagh’s black crime comedy In Bruges [+see also:
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