Lap Rouge
Netherlands,
1996, 43 min
Shown in 1998
CREDITS
- dir
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Lodewyk Crijns
- prod
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Martha Oortman Gerlings
- cast
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Herman Joosten, Egbert Joosten, Sjoukje Aklema, Peter van Oorschot, Emmanuelle Maridjan-Koop
- source
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Fortuna Films, Prinsengracht 634-A, 1017 KT Amsterdam, Netherlands. FAX: 31-20-638-0149
- gga award
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Certificate of Merit, Film & Video: Short Narrative
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COMMENTS
Shown in the Laughing in the Lowlands: Lodewyk Crijns program.
OTHER
Using a dizzy documentary style, Crijns tracks two mangy brothers, Egbert and Herman, reduced to scrambling for odd jobs in the South of France. Like crusty barnacles on a ship’s hull, they’ve affixed themselves to their pert and pretty neighbor, Julie, who’s confused by the attention of these two ZZ Top look-alikes. With a talent for satire grounded in the scruffiest of details, Crijns keeps you off balance and gagging on your own laughter.
—Steve Seid
FACTOID #257
Funny Girl was selected by the San Francisco Film International to receive the Samuel Goldwyn Award as the best picture made in the U.S. in 1968. Star Barbara Streisand and producer Ray Stark attended the Festival to pick up the award.
