Atlantis

Netherlands • 2008 • 90m •

• Directed by: Digna Sinke. • Starring: Pitou Nicolaes, Valerie Bedier de Prairie, Khaldoen El Mecky, Cas Enklaar, Carla Hardy, Yorrin Kootstra, Bert Luppes, Ria Marks, Eliane Neuteboom, Jade Olieberg, Annemarie Prins, Hilde Prinse, Armin Scheuten..

Shy, thirteen year old Xenia doesn't feel comfortable in the overly-regulated society she lives in. In search of a place for herself she discovers an island on which time doesn't seem to exist. This is where she finds the key to her future.

Review:

This is a surprisingly very good movie that lets the spectator submerge in the internal world of main character, Xenia. Especially the (dis)balance between the search of self-fulfillment and the surrounding anti-utopian environment of future Netherlands re-shaped according to Chinese standards (yes, its somewhere towards the end of the movie where the huge school class of Xenia is taught Chinese on a large scale). Apparently this standard took over after the "flood" which is hinted at by the brother of Xenia, who is probably the only person she really can talk to besides the old lady "guide" that she regularly visits on the "island".

While watching the movie I have strongly felt a feeling I also get when watching Tarkovsky's Stalker (the depiction of the nature of the Netherlands is superb) and when reading anti-utopia like 1984, Brave New World and We (by Zamyatin).

Review by avichi [IMDB 14 August 2010] from the Internet Movie Database.

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