Broken Mirrors

– Humour, the currency of Dutch director Gorris' first feminist thriller, A Question of Silence, is ex..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.60 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 48 Minutes
Release Year:
1984
Original Name:
Gebroken Spiegels
Broken Mirrors (1984) - Also known as Gebroken Spiegels

Humour, the currency of Dutch director Gorris' first feminist thriller, A Question of Silence, is exchanged in her second for the much darker coinage of horror. A murderer is at large: a well-dressed businessman who incarcerates his victims, chains and starves them, and documents their death amid their filth with instamatic snaps. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a woman joins a brothel. These two simple strands of plot come together within the film, and are united by a single theme: that women's suffering is basic to man's pleasure. A film directed by a duller dog than Gorris would remain just this: a bleak message wagged by a compelling tale. But Gorris' talent as a director is to mobilise ideas to grip an audience, with characters that fill us with compassion and respect and allow us to derive a guilty pleasure from this very special film about the ordinary pain of others.

Producing Country:
Genre:
Release Date:

27 Sep 1984

Language:

Dutch

Director:

Marleen Gorris

Writer:

Marleen Gorris

Main Actors:

Lineke Rijxman, Henriëtte Tol, Edda Barends, Coby Stunnenberg

Plot:

Released in Holland as Gebroken Spiegels, Broken Mirrors is set for the most part in an Amsterdam brothel. Lineke Ripman and Henriette Tol play two whores who begin to rebel against their ...

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.6/10