Loft (2008 film)

  • Koen De Bouw: Chris Van Outryve
  • Filip Peeters: Vincent Stevens
  • Matthias Schoenaerts: Filip Willems
  • Bruno Vanden Broucke: Luc Seynaeve
  • Koen De Graeve: Marnix Laureys
  • Veerle Baetens: Ann Marai
  • Tine Reymer: Barbara Stevens
  • Marie Vinck: Sarah Delporte
  • January Decleir: Ludwig Tyberghein

Loft - Deadly affairs is a Belgian film directed by Erik Van Looy from 2008, with an ensemble of Flemish actor. The screenplay of the thriller comes from Bart De Pauw.

Action

Five married men are an upscale lofts, which they use to meet their respective mistresses discreet owned. As is the lifeless body of a murdered woman found in the home, the men begin accusing each other of grisly crime to blame because they are the only ones who have access to the premises with their own keys. Through flashbacks, which are intertwined by interrogation scenes from the present, the whole story is unraveled.

Background

Production

Parts of the film were shot in Ostend. The building in which the loft is located, is in Antwerp at the Scheldt.

Number of

Loft is the most successful Belgian film of all time. On 18 February 2009, he presented with 1.08248 million visitors a applicable until then record the film Koko flannel Stijn Coninx with 1,082,000 visitors, a total of 1,186,071 visitors were recorded.

Criticism

" The previously neglected Filmland Belgium is with the thriller " Loft " sit up again. Director Erik Van Looy here conjures the mood of thrillers from the 80s and can even memories of Billy Wilder's wake up " The Apartment". With an original with numerous twists, screenplay he adds the whodunit genre - despite a hasty final chord - a gripping, first-class filmed chapter to ".

Remake

In December 2010, under the same title was a Dutch remake, which achieved in the Netherlands over 400,000 visitors. 2011/12 was an American remake, which will hit theaters in the fall of 2013. Directed by Erik Van Looy led again.

Television broadcasting

On 16 May 2011 the ZDF showed the film under the title "Deadly Affairs " for the first time on German television.

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