Your mom's basement just got a whole lot creepier.
Pieter Le Roy is in his thirties and still lives with his old mother. He doesn't work and kills time spying on his fellow man - actually, he's spying on them; he comes to a head when he is caught by a making out couple in the park as a voyeur. His life as a peeping Tom gets in more trouble when teacher Rappange comes to live with them.
Acting
Porgy Franssen's skin-crawling peeping Tom physicality.
Direction
Van Elst's suffocating domestic tension.
Director
Gerrit van Elst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Late-90s Dutch cinema's fascination with awkward male protagonists and suburban dysfunction.
Gerrit van Elst made only two features; this was his second and final before leaving filmmaking entirely.
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