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Nationality
  
Belgium

Name
  
Erik Looy


Role
  
Film director

Children
  
Lucas Van Looy

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Full Name
  
Erik Ludovicus Maria Van Looy

Born
  
26 April 1962 (age 61) (
1962-04-26
)
Deurne, Belgium

Occupation
  
Filmmaker & host on VIER

Spouse
  
Nadine Joos (m. 1993–2014)

Residence
  
Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium

Known for
  
Movies
  
The Loft, Loft, The Alzheime, Dossier K, Ad Fundum

Similar People
  
Bart De Pauw, Koen De Bouw, Matthias Schoenaerts, Wesley Strick, Karl Urban

The Loft - Official Trailer (NL/FR Subtitles) (By Erik Van Looy)


Erik Ludovicus Maria Van Looy ([ˈeːˌrɪk vɑn loːj]) is a Belgian film director known for his thriller movies. He was born on 26 April 1962.

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Van Looy is also a popular television host in Flanders who hosts De Slimste Mens ter Wereld (The Smartest Person on Earth), and has hosted De Pappenheimers. The former is a television show aired on VIER where Van Looy and his team of comical judges are on a quest to find the world's smartest person, i.e., the one who has the best knowledge of politics, history, arts, sports, media and film.

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Erik Van Looy dolt met filmsterren voor "De Laatste Show" (2002-2004)


Awards and recognition

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His most famous films The Alzheimer Case and Loft have been widely appreciated by the Flemish audience as well as by the Flemish critics, with Loft even being the best watched Flemish movie in theaters up to now. Loft has got a Dutch remake in the Netherlands which was also a success. This resulted in an American remake which was again highly liked by the Flemish audience and critics, but not by the American critics. The reason for Loft not being a success in the United States will be a cultural difference between the United States and Flanders/Netherlands. As Erik Van Looy pointed out in Flanders/Netherlands cheating on someone (by a male or a female) is not considered to be such a big deal (as long as you still love your partner), where in the US it caused the main characters to become all very unlikable to the American audience.

Movies

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The American actors of The Loft praised Van Looy's peaceful and calm directing style. This resulted in generally excellent on-screen performances which were also noted by the American audience which although they found the characters highly unlikable still gave the movie a B- on average.

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His most famous movies are:

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  • Ad Fundum (1993)
  • Shades (1999)
  • The Alzheimer Case (2003), this movie was also released in the United States as The Memory of a Killer
  • Loft (2008)
  • The Loft (2014), American remake of the 2008 film with the same name
  • Prime Minister (2016) .
  • References

    Erik Van Looy Wikipedia