Bride Flight

"Bride Flight" takes its title from an actual flight in 1953 between London and Christchurch, New Zealand - part of the Great Air Race. The Dutch airline for many Dutch women are flying to New Zealand to meet the current and potential husbands, and the film will follow the fate of three of them in many tumultuous years, using two players to represent each them that the younger and older.

The events of the plot is the stuff of soap opera, but the film treats it seriously, and the game is compelling enough that we forgive the story and begins to worry about grades. Four people on the trail will find their life together in New Zealand. Ada (Karina Smulders) and Marjorie (Elise Schaap) fly to meet their husbands. Esther (Anna Drijver), a Holocaust survivor, is a fashion designer, hoping to start a new business. Frank (Waldemar Tore Stra) is a breeder of Nice. During the flight is Ada, who met her new husband only once, she and Frank fall in love.

Christchurch, like all post-war optimism of the city which is full of opportunities, in particular, unlike the war-torn Holland. Ada lives with her husband (Micha Hülshoff), Calvinist fiercely judgmental. Esther opens the Design Studio. Marjorie discovers that he can get the kids. Esther discovers that he can, but does not want his career comes first. And Frank - Well, Frank is the son of brilliant, well-liked, and if it does not have one with you, loves, loves that which is with.

Bride Flight



"Bride Flight" to the melodrama, and other details of the time, behavior, personality, a little 'redeemed rather inevitable conclusion. The report of Ada, who has three children, and then comes a major decision, which colors everything else happens. Esther and Marjorie find their own decisions are not so easily left in the past.

You may feel that I am not well described in the story. It would be unfair. A film like "Bride Flight" works because we want to develop. We see the pieces are in place and want to see how everything will work out. It works more or less inevitable you might expect, I suppose, but you mind if I reveal some of the turns.

It's more budget movie ever made in Holland, in part because the history of flight real bride is well known and involves a period filled with emotion. So great is the production that Rutger Hauer has returned to Dutch film after almost 30 years old to play Frank. The young actresses who play the three are all capable son, and Karina Smulders much more than that, in a role that takes her deeper than others.

Three observations. (1) There is a danger to assign a character and ways to apply it constantly. Esther smoking using a cigarette holder small, she always keeps close to his face. It starts to be a problem. (2) In a scene in an airport is an essential part of the information conveyed in a subtle and rather elegant understatement. You'll see what I mean. (3) There is a love scene of an actual emergency and passion. Often films sex scenes seem to simply be a vigorous exercise.

"Bride Flight" is a bit 'like the cinematic equivalent of those bodice-ripping romance novels for sale at the supermarket checkout. ("It 'just a beach read," the buyer says, secretly slipping a book on the conveyor belt between the box of tissues and an apple pie.) But viewers should not feel any shame in buying a ticket for Dutch saga set in New Zealand, the beautiful and historical background to bring sentimental soap opera plot domain.

The film, directed by Ben Sombogaart and written by Marieke van der Pol, after the last big race of the air from London to Christchurch, New Zealand. The real competition in 1953 was dubbed the "inaugural flight" because many soon-to-be brides were on their way to their future husbands.

On board the Flying Dutchman are three such women - Esther (Anna Drijver), Ada (Karina Smulders) and Marjorie (Elise Schaap) - in collaboration with the lovely, dreamy-eyed Frank (Waldemar Tore Stra). As the film shows that there were many reasons for leaving the post-war Europe, and the main characters such justifications are losing loved ones, regardless of the Holocaust, a Japanese prisoner of war camp or the recent massive flooding.

The theft of more than 37 hours appears to be more than enough to Ada and Frank fall in love. However, any potential union is frustrated because Ada is about to join her future husband, a man cocky, Puritan met again, was the father of her unborn child. Upon arrival, Esther, a value of aspiring designer fashion, decides he would rather be single than marry her fiance, while Marjorie hyper cheerful immediately hooked and began to prepare their young huge've always wanted.

The story jumps between the day when women will gather for the funeral of Frank, and in the 1950s and 60s. Without giving too much away, suffice it to say that the intervening years, the melodrama galore promise. A baby born to a woman who is secretly raised by another, the burning love letters sent and received, a shocking scene unfolds on a volcano, and a quarrel broke out between two men - what else? - A woman. The bodice ripping over too literally takes place.

If the argument borders on the excess volume moments, there is something special about the feel of old film, and not just because most of the action takes place in the last 50 years. It is an endless romance, a genre that seemed gone it still feels refreshing when every other big-screen star appears with a cartoon superhero.

"Bride Flight" remains a guilty pleasure, but maybe something that looks like a slice of apple pie - which ensures comfort with the courage of nutrition that can pretend to be good for you.