By our entertainment editors
02 Feb 2023 at 17:30
After three seasons of Klem, the cake was finished, according to director Frank Ketelaar. A fourth season of the series with Barry Atsma, Jacob Derwig and Georgina Verbaan is therefore no longer possible. But the series does end with a feature film. NU.nl lists the reviews from the Dutch newspapers.
NRC – 3 stars
“A new audience will not tap into Klem: the film, but for regular viewers this epilogue is an unnecessary and pleasant reunion with the beloved anti-heroes. Ketelaar (…) skilfully plays with the prejudices that live on both sides in his script: the Italians think the Dutch are blunt stubborn, the Dutch company immediately sees a mafioso in every Mediterranean type. She is forgiven that the makers have to pull a lot of rabbits out of the hat in the last ten minutes to complete all the plots.
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de Volkskrant – 3 stars
“A feature film often requires a very different tension and dynamics than a series, and Klem’s plot is certainly not the strongest point. The actors are still comfortable in their roles, but it helps if you have seen the series. And the film searches a bit wobbly for tone and style, curiously enough, something the series itself has always been very accurate in. There are even some of those eternal romcom elements, something that Dutch cinema is slowly going under – talk about being stuck .”
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Loyal – 3 stars
“A strategic chess game between the ‘cheese heads’ and an Italian who preys on the winery, in which the explanatory dialogues are given more space than the build-up of tension. Frank Ketelaar, also creator of the series, emphatically shows sausages and sharp knives: looks threatening, but little is done with it. The local garage owner who just doesn’t get around to repairing Hugo’s car? Handy for the plot, but it could have been given a more dynamic part in the power struggle.”
“Still, apart from a fine group of actors who reprise their previous roles, Klem has something to offer: an enlivening of our vocabulary with exotic swear words. ‘Bloembollenlul’. ‘Nakketikkers’.”
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De Telegraaf – 2 stars
“Whereas the series Klem with its colorful characters and many plot twists looked good on television, the feature film Klem: Maniere Olandesi, directed by Frank Ketelaar himself, falls short. On the silver screen, it is striking how caricatured his character sketches actually are. In addition the accumulation of ridiculous actions by its protagonists and the sometimes far-fetched dialogues undermine the credibility of this crime thriller, which offers old wine in new bottles, but of a considerably lesser age.”
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AD – 3 stars
“The fact that it refuses to get exciting has everything to do with the origin of Klem. Ketelaar obviously does not just throw the events from his series finale in the blunt. You therefore do not believe for a second that someone’s life is actually in danger. It is a bonus for the fans. A tasty movie dessert that, once eaten, leads to a predictable conclusion: the cake was indeed already finished.”
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