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He is jumping her, she is fending him off and looking to her “living” statue of St. Jacob ( Jack Wouterse) is the randy, pot-bellied butcher, a man whose never-ending “needs” aren’t being met by his Catholic wife Martha ( Annet Malherbe). But small town nosiness, gossip, sexual frustrations, religious superstition and values have followed them there. They have lovely new flats, a shiny new school and an antiseptic tree farm (planned) forest. Set in a an unfinished/never-will-be-finished Dutch planned community in the early ’60s, it plays up the clash of provincialism with modernity as we grimly grin at lives of not-so-quiet desperation. So if you were intrigued by any film of his you might have stumbled into in North America - 2013’s “Borgman” was the most famous - here’s a chance to dip into a world of this award winning, film festival favorite.įilm Movement is offering six films surveying his career, and while I’ll get to others, I’m going to come right out and say that maybe the cryptic and drier-than-dry “The Northerners (De noorderlingen) ” shouldn’t be your entre into the mind of this ironist. Film Movement+ is streaming a retrospective of the deadpan Dutch satirist Alex van Warmerdam beginning in March.