Anton who is engaged in activities outside his family life, captures Simon red-handed in his act (looking at the school teacher's subscribed adult magazine) and tries to capture the Negro.
Thomas has sexual confrontations with Agnes, but often disturbed by his mother's "divine" premonitions. Jacob turns into a cad and attacks women. Adding further complications are two Belgian priests who visit the town, bringing with them an exhibition of Africana and a Negro. He is incapable of meeting his wife, Elisabeth's needs. Meanwhile, Anton a gun-crazed forester moves around the forest in search of trespassers. He is encouraged in this escapism by Simon, the postman who reads all the mail and knows all of the bizarre and intimate secrets of the eccentric inhabitants of the town.
De noorderlingen 1992 how to#
It is there that he meets Agnes, a half-naked woman who lives in the forest and hides at the bottom of a pond and shows him how to breathe under water by sucking on a stem. Thomas, 12-year-old son, becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news – the liberation of the Belgian Congo is taking place and Thomas calls himself Lumumba, after the Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. When Thomas' mother Martha is drawn into sainthood and changed their home into a shrine this frustrated his father the local butcher, Jacob and he finds it difficult to manage it all with his sexual needs. A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960s housing development.
0 kommentar(er)
