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Netherlands · 2019
1h 27m
Director Lennert Hillege, Guido van Driel
Starring Susanne Wolff, Dragoș Bucur, Teun Luijkx, Mark Rietman
Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
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Marie was once a successful comic artist, but now she lives among the sex workers of Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Self-destructive and constantly drunk, everything changes when she steals from a pimp next door and sees the horrific consequences of her actions firsthand in this stylish and character-driven drama-thriller.
A cautionary tale, a story of salvation, sad, lyrical, funny and even brutal at times, Bloody Marie is a shot of adrenaline in a landscape filled with cinematic clones. It may not be perfect, or for everyone, but it sure is spicy as hell, and it gets most of the ingredients just right.
Given their evident talent for packaging (as opposed to content), Hillege and van Driel might next consider doing something of a more purely genre-based nature, where depth or its lack thereof won’t matter much.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Susanne Wolff, who impressed critics last year in Wolfgang Fischer's "Styx," makes another strong turn here, grounding what could have become a merely lurid tale of dissipation, danger and sex work.
Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
Even at its most pulse-pounding, Bloody Marie remains locked on its sympathetically pathetic protagonist.
The chaotic violence, when co-writers/director Guido van Driel and Lennert Hillege dish it out, is frenetic — a drunk’s weaving and teetering hand-held camer chase, sudden turns towards the brutal, an assault that seems to come out of nowhere — to a drunk.
The story of a man in who's life precisely nothing was to happen...