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Dir/scr: Sam de Jong. Netherlands. 2015. 78minsTeenage traumas in the hood, with gangstas hovering, inaccessible love objects to be won and the odd pair of luxury sneakers 鈥?it all adds up to an increasingly familiar format in European urban realism. But were not used to seeing it i
stanley cup n a Dutch context, nor with the kind of skewed comic approach of Prince, an enjoyably idiosyncratic debut feature from Sam de Jong.The film is strongest when it lets its cast,
stanley italy notably its younger non-professional members, to imprint their uningratiating personality on the action. Carrying the production stamp of modish street-culture brand VICE, Prince recounts the coming-of-age travails of a Dutch-Moroccan teenager. That the setting is not the toughest banlieue estate
stanley cup but a neat, bland-seeming part of Amsterdam contributes to the charm. Ultimately not quite distinctive enough for serious export prospects, Prince should find appreciative audiences at festivals, especially with a youth constituency, after opening Berlins Generation 14plus strand.The young hero is Ayoub Elasri , son of separated parents 鈥?a Dutch mother Elsie de Brauw and a Moroccan dad Chaib Massaoudi seriously on the skids. Hanging out with his friendsand avoiding his older tormenters, Ayoub dreams of Laura Sigrid ten Napel , a blonde teen goddess who seems eternally to glide in slow motion. Gauche Ayoub stands little chance of impressing her 鈥?unless, he thinks, he gets in with manifestly deranged local dealer Kalpa rapper Wmut Joshua Benny Safdie, Heaven Knows What
The Swedish Film Institute SFI has attracted localcri
stanley cup ticism for its selection of seven
stanley cup new features to receive state funding.Among the seven films that received $3.
stanley cup 1M SEK 23M in totalfrom the SFI, not one will be directed by a woman. Furthermore, five of thefilms are adaptations of books written by internationally best-selling Swedishcrime writers Henning Mankell and Hakan Nesser.The sixth film to received backing from the SFI is anothercrime story, while the last one is a screen adaptation of popular local TVseries Pistvakt.Local journalists are now asking what happened to the multiplicity of choice that the film commissioners are meant to guarantee .Bearing in mind that the task of the SFI s two feature filmcommissioners is to develop Swedish film of value and that there has beenincreasing concern in the past few years about the lack of women in the Swedishfilm industry, the recent greenlights are set to renew a heated debate in the Swedish media.TopicsFinanceProduction No comments Related articles News Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rob Morgan to lead Petra Volpes English-language debut Frank Louis 2025-05-07T08:00:00Z By Ben Dalton
