Synopsis  (Country : Netherlands)

Babylon

84 mins/1997

Babylon is another example of the ‘New wave Dutch cinema’, made on short schedules and low budgets. These films, well liked by young Dutch audiences, have mini-revival of the national cinema in Holland.

Babylon is more experimental than the same filmmaker’s Bastards & bridesmaids. It tells of five "love misunderstandings", using the story of a large-than-life cartoonlike characters from four different countries : An Italian waiter, South African nightclub performer sadly falls in love with his lesbian workpartner, a German tourist and an absurd French rockstar. Not to forget two kids from the Dutch province of "Friesland" where the rurals are known to be not easily impressed.

Babylon is a game about prejudice and the overcoming of it, with the director deliberately walking the edge between reality and caricature.

Credits:-
Directed by Eddy Terstall

Cast:
Rifka Lodeizen, Daan Ekkel, Nadja Hupscher

Eddy Terstall, 34, one of the preeminent young Dutch filmmakers today, made his first feature, Transit, in 1992 and followed it up with Walhalla in 1994. Disillusioned with larger budget films ("no creative freedom"), he started making independent films for smaller budgets, shooting a feature in a fortnight and using a small circle of friends as actors. Babylon belongs to his low-budget Amsterdam-trilogy of which Bastards and Bridesmaids (1996) was the first and Based on the Novel the third film. Terstall’s next film Rent-a-Friend will be shot in the Netherlands, Mexico and Japan.