Movienight 4 - Thursday 3rd December, 20.00h (we start later so that you can see Sarah Wigglesworth lecture in Room A first).Next time Paris, but as we are right before Sinterklaas, we feel that we first need to talk about Holland! As the foreigners in our group only spend time with us, the intellectual elite of the Netherlands, the smartest 10% of Dutch people, we think that you should also know the other 90%. It is also a really good film for the Dutch to watch!! Feel free to do some PR and invite your Dutch and non-Dutch friends, the tribune is big enough...
About the film
Pretpark Nederland - a film by TU Delft alumni Michiel van Erp - beautifully portrays leisure in the Netherlands. It takes us on a trip to themepark Efteling, a fair for 50+ housewives, the gay-parade, the chocolate festival of the small city Zutphen, and other activities organized for and by Dutch middle-class. Moreover, by showing how the Dutch middle-class choose to spend their free time, the film portrays who the Dutch really are. Michiel van Erp looks beyond the stereotype. From a review on the NRC-website (Dutch quality newspaper):
"After seeing Pretpark Nederland, you could state that the majority of the Dutch population is on a permanent bus trip through a gigantic open-air museum, without taking any notion of large-city problems, immigrants, unemployment, religious revival or poverty. But also the invisibility of the architectonic and planning implications of this perpetual ongoing consuming: more shopping centers with more similar shops and the vanishing of local and regional differences and identity. You could wonder if Michiel van Erp really cares about this, because other than that, it is quite 'gezellig' in the Netherlands!" (souce)
