Moniek Toebosch
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Monique Pauline Maria Josephine (Moniek) Toebosch was a Dutch actress and artist.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Breda, The Netherlands
Adult: No
Deathday: November 24, 2012
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The Hes Case
Overview: Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1982-09-23
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Bedsitters
Overview: Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space by using a ‘floating’ camera to film a number of crawling, creeping personages. (MUBI)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination
Overview: The actual life and the fiction created by a successful pulp author begin to blend together.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-10-31
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The Mantle of Love
Overview: De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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Spectator
Overview: Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between husband and wife. It is a relationship that is strongly marked by power and domination, sexual attraction and repulsion. It manifests itself in humiliation and abuse (such Pentimento), but also in cool eroticism or natural physicality. Zwartjes’ goal is not to explain or designate this relationship. Rather it is the subject that Zwartjes uses to describe his world. In an article on Zwartjes, filmmaker and student George Schouten compares Zwartjes to the Italian writer Alberto Moravia. For both, sex is their way of dealing with reality. It is the subject by which they define their world. And for Zwartjes, it is also the subject with which he can display and develop his cinematic talent. (eyefilm.nl)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Through the Garden and Into the Living
Overview: Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series Home Sweet Home.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Pentimento
Overview: In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another. "Pentimento" is an art-historical term for a hidden image underneath the actual image giving an indication of how the latter evolved to its current state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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The Great Magician
Overview: "The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the American essayist Susan Sontag.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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Audition
Overview: Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with his brother Rudolf and Lodewijk de Boer. Audition is a fine example of a Zwartjes film with an important soundtrack. It is a visual improvisation of cinematography and acting. There is hardly a ‘story line’. A man and a woman watch another woman singing, predominantly in exciting black and white images.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-04
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Spare Bed-Room
Overview: An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Behind Your Walls
Overview: Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like crisp paper about to be despoiled, a torpid heat reduces movement to fidgets and hesitations. - MIFF
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Seats Two
Overview: Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of the film's editing and the tactile quality of the images. - MIFF
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-16
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Dolls
Overview: An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Beyond
Overview: Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Eating
Overview: Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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In Extremo
Overview: The central element in this film is formed by the preparation for and execution of a performance. The performance, a parachute jump, is carried out by an artist (Perrenet) and his girlfriend during the opening of an exhibition. As spectators to the performance, which takes place in the artist’s studio, an art dealer and several friends have been invited. The art dealer enters first, followed by Armand, who looks at some paintings made by Zwartjes; they spout the usual ‘gallery nonsense’. The art dealer appears most interested in the girlfriend. ‘My latest creation’ is how Amand introduces her. The guests who arrive thereafter are introduced in short, independent sections.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1981-09-11
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Solo Concert for Photographer and Critic
Overview: Concert for which Toebosch only invited the renowned jazz critic Ruud Koopmans and a photographer. As usual the concert ended dramatically confusing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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