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"Bride Flight" takes its title from an actual flight in 1953 between London and Christchurch, New Zealand - part of the Great Air Race. The Dutch airline for many Dutch women are flying to New Zealand to meet the current and potential husbands, and the film will follow the fate of three of them in many tumultuous years, using two players to represent each them that the younger and older.

The events of the plot is soap opera stuff, but the film deals with it seriously, and acting is convincing enough that we forgive the story and characters start to care. Four people on a flight destined to find life in New Zealand. Ada (Karina Smulders) and Marjorie (Elise Schaap) flying to meet her husband. Esther (Anna Drijver), Holocaust survivor, is a fashion designer, hoping to start a new business. Frank (Waldemar Torenstraat) is a hunky farmer. During the flight, Ada, who met her new husband once said she and Frank fall in love.

Christchurch, like all post-war optimism of the city which is full of opportunities, in particular, unlike the war-torn Holland. Ada lives with her husband (Micha Hülshoff), Calvinist fiercely judgmental. Esther opens the Design Studio. Marjorie discovers that he can get the kids. Esther discovers that he can, but does not want his career comes first. And Frank - Well, Frank is the son of brilliant, well-liked, and if it does not have one with you, loves, loves that which is with.

"Bride Flight" to the melodrama, and other details of the time, behavior, personality, a little 'redeemed rather inevitable conclusion. The report of Ada, who has three children, and then comes a major decision, which colors everything else happens. Esther and Marjorie find their own decisions are not so easily left in the past.

You can feel that I can not describe much of the story. It would not be fair. A film like "Bride Flight" works because we want to see unfold. We see the pieces are put in place and you want to see how it will all work out. It works more or less inevitably to be expected, I suppose, but you'd be sorry if I revealed some of the towers.

It's more low-budget film has been made in the Netherlands, partly because the history of actual flight is married and is known emotional period. As important is the production Rutger Hauer returns to Dutch cinema after almost 30 years to play Frank. The young actresses who play the three are capable son, and Karina Smulders much more than that, in a role that takes her deeper than others.

Bride Flight


Three observations. (1) There is a danger to assign a character and ways to apply it constantly. Esther smoking using a cigarette holder small, she always keeps close to his face. It starts to be a problem. (2) In a scene in an airport is an essential part of the information conveyed in a subtle and rather elegant understatement. You'll see what I mean. (3) There is a love scene of an actual emergency and passion. Often films sex scenes seem to simply be a vigorous exercise.

"Bride Flight" is like the cinematic equivalent of those romance novels bodice-ripping for sale near the supermarket. ("It's just a beach read," the buyer of the book justifies secret slip on the conveyor belt from a box of tissues and an apple pie.) But moviegoers do not feel any shame in buying a ticket for Dutch saga set in New Zealand with beautiful scenery and historical context of raising sentimental story lines of soap opera domain.

The film, directed by Ben Sombogaart and written by Marieke van der Pol, after the Last Great Air Race from London to Christchurch, New Zealand. The real contest in 1953 was dubbed the "bride theft", as many soon-to-be wives were sent to their future husbands.

On board the Flying Dutchman has three of those woman - Esther (Anna Drijver), Ada (Karina Smulders) and Marjorie (Elise Schaap) - as well as a charming, dreamy eyes, Frank (Waldemar Torenstraat). As shown in the film, there were many reasons to go to Europe after the war, and the main characters of the film, the reasons are losing their loved ones, if the Holocaust, a field of Japanese prisoners of war or the recent massive floods.

Over 37 hours of flight is more than enough time to Ada and Frank fall in love. But any EU empty because Ada is set to join her future husband, hypocritical, puritanical man, whom he met only once more is the father of her unborn child. Upon arrival, Esther, courageous aspiring fashion designer, decided to prefer one betrothed to marry when the hyper-busy Marjorie can be married, and start planning a massive brood, has always wanted.

The story jumps between the day when women will gather for the funeral of Frank, and in the 1950s and 60s. Without giving too much away, suffice it to say that the intervening years, the melodrama galore promise. A baby born to a woman who is secretly raised by another, the burning love letters sent and received, a shocking scene unfolds on a volcano, and a quarrel broke out between two men - what else? - A woman. The bodice ripping over too literally takes place.

If the argument borders on the excess volume moments, there is something special about the feel of old film, and not just because most of the action takes place in the last 50 years. It is an endless romance, a genre that seemed gone it still feels refreshing when every other big-screen star appears with a cartoon superhero.

"Bride Flight" Guilty Pleasure is still, but perhaps a kind of a slice of apple pie - that comforting standby just enough nutritional value that you can pretend that it is good for you.