Film and identity in Benelux
LUXEMBOURG
Other faces
Andy Bausch's
Le Club des ch�meurs
(The Unemployment Club, 2002)
Popular with audiences and controversial with critics, Le Club des ch�meurs evokes the faded remains of Luxembourg's industrial glory to illustrate the identity of this "in-between," multicultural nation. G�rard Kraus examines Luxembourg's answer to The Full Monty.
THE NETHERLANDS
Starting out national
Paul Verhoeven's Turks fruit (Turkish Delight, 1973)
Verhoeven's glittering career in Hollywood making blockbusters disguises a lesser-known past making Dutch-language films, including directing what is acclaimed as the best Dutch film of all time. Matt Ross investigates.