Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even fatherhood and a move to the boring country go well, until Carmen gets breast cancer. Now their lives are turned upside-down, maybe wrecked
Acting
Carice van Houten carries the emotional wreckage like a champion
Writing
Unflinching portrait of a man who cannot stop self-sabotaging
Director
Reinout Oerlemans
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Ray Kluun's autobiographical novel 'Komt een vrouw bij de dokter,' which caused a scandal in the Netherlands for its unvarnished portrayal of the author's own infidelity during his wife's illness.
The film sparked heated Dutch debate about whether Kluun—and by extension Stijn—deserved sympathy or condemnation, essentially becoming a Rorschach test for viewers' own moral flexibility.
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