Edgar works as a waiter in 'Het Westen', a restaurant. He is married and has a lover. His neighbors terrorize him with loud music and garbage. One day after he is mistreated by some customers he is sick of it all and goes to talk to his creator, the scenario writer.
Direction
Van Warmerdam's suffocating, theatrical staging
Writing
Self-aware script that devours its own creator
Acting
Van Warmerdam's bottled fury finally uncorked
Director
Alex van Warmerdam
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Van Warmerdam wrote, directed, and starred—a triple threat of creative masochism that mirrors the film's themes perfectly.
Part of the Dutch absurdist tradition, this film channels Kafka through a Amsterdam restaurant kitchen—less bureaucracy, more bitter coffee.
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