Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.
Acting
Four leads so convincingly miserable you'll need therapy.
Writing
Dialogue that cuts like your actual friends would.
Direction
Van de Sande Bakhuyzen lets awkwardness breathe beautifully.
Director
Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Title refers to the common intestinal/cloacal chamber in primitive animals—a charming metaphor for how these four men process life through the same toxic outlet.
Director Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen died by suicide three years after this film; his final work pulses with unflinching honesty about male despair that now reads devastatingly autobiographical.
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