CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1988
The Vanishing posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1988 1h 46m NLD

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

A Dutch people couple, Rex and Saskia, are on holiday in France. As they drive, Saskia shares a recurring dream in which she is drifting through space in a golden egg. In the most recent dream, another egg containing another person appeared; she feels the collision of the two eggs would signify the end of something.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Raymond Lemorne

Gene Bervoets

Gene Bervoets

Rex Hofman

Johanna ter Steege

Saskia Wagter

Gwen Eckhaus

Lieneke

Bernadette Le Saché

Simone Lemorne

Tania Latarjet

Denise