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J. Kessels

2015 · 107 min

A scruffy, offbeat road trip that mixes deadpan comedy with a corpse-in-the-trunk predicament and a grimy, boozy edge.

Directed by
Erik de Bruyn
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Overview
J. Kessels is the story of the bizarre road trip taken by a French literary pulp writer with his favourite character J. Kessels. The journey takes them from Tilburg to the Hamburg Reeperbahn in Kessels' old American 'Kamikaze' clunker as they seek out cheating dealer. When they get there they find a corpse in the trunk of the Kamikaze: easy to find, but how do you get rid of it?

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Directed by
Erik de Bruyn
Genres
Comedy, Drama
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Tone
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • obsession
  • crime
  • friendship
  • deception
Places
  • road trip
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action4
Horror2
Humour6
Realism6
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight4

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Erik de Bruyn
Starring
Fedja van Huêt, Frank Lammers, Ruben van der Meer, Livia Matthes, Annick Christiaens, Erik de Bruyn, Bart de Graauw
Runtime
107 min
Country
Netherlands
Languages
Dutch

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