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Directed by Robert Jan Westdijk Cinematography Menno Westendorp Director Robert Jan Westdijk | 6.8/10 IMDb Written by Robert Jan Westdijk Initial release 25 September 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Sallie Harmsen
Ramsey Nasr
Loek Peters Music by Michel Banabila
Eric Vloeimans Production
companies Motel Films
Fu Works
IDTV Film Music director Eric Vloeimans, Michel Banabila Awards Golden Calf for Best Montage, Golden Calf for Best Camera Produced by Jeroen Beker, San Fu Maltha, Frans van Gestel Cast Sallie Harmsen, Loek Peters, Ramsey Nasr Similar Phileine Says Sorry, Little Sister, Katia's Sister, Zombie Death House, Siberia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In Real Life, released in the Netherlands as Het echte leven, is a 2008 Dutch drama film that was written and directed by Robert Jan Westdijk. The film had its premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival on 25 September 2008 and was released on DVD the following year. The film stars Ramsey Nasr as a film director that decides to test his girlfriend's love for him. The movie's soundtrack was composed by Michel Banabila and Eric Vloeimans, and features songs from their album VoizNoiz 3 - Urban Jazz Scapes.
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Synopsis
Director Martin (Ramsey Nasr) is in a relationship with his girlfriend Simone (Sallie Harmsen), who is also his co-star in a film he's making, Real Life. Inside this film Simone is playing a character whose boyfriend Milan (played by Martin) has decided to test her love for him. For the test Simone must try to fall in love with another man. If, after this point, she decides that she's truly in love with Milan, he will consider her love genuine.
Outside of the film Martin casts Fjodor (Oren Schrijver) as the love interest for the fictional Simone, only for the two to continually butt heads over Martin's directorial style (which greatly resembles method acting), forcing Martin to drop the actor. He then casts the recently separated Dirk (Loek Peters) in Fjodor's role and this seems to be a good fit. Things grow complicated when Dirk begins to fall for the real Simone, who initially only responds to him in order to elicit genuine emotions for the film. However as filming progresses Simone begins to actually respond to and grow closer to her co-star. These confusing emotions are not helped by Martin, whose directorial style blurs the lines between reality and fiction.
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Reception
Variety gave In Real Life a favorable review but also wrote that the "Pic will click at fests, but lacks that Charlie Kaufman-like touch that could persuade Euro distribs to sign on the dotted line." The Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad criticized Westdijk for not taking the film seriously enough and stated that the film lacked rhythm. They also expressed disappointment in the film given Westdijk's prior filmmaking efforts and the fact that it was the opening film for the Netherlands Film Festival. A review from NU.nl expressed the same concerns, as they thought that the film was nice but also believed that Westdijk could have accomplished more.