Vrijdag [Friday] (1981) - Hugo Claus

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Runtime: 96 min
Country: Belgium / Netherlands
Language: Flemish (Dutch)
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Stereo

Director: Hugo Claus
Writers: Hugo Claus (play)
Hugo Claus (screenplay)
Release Date: 29 April 1981
Genre: Drama




Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins with the theme of incest, as the father Georges (Frank Aendenboom) returns from serving his jail sentence for that crime. Unlike the earlier play, however, the film does not emphasize that aspect of the story. When Georges gets home he finds out that his wife Jeanne (Kitty Courbois) has had an illegitimate child by a younger man, Erik (Herbert Flack), and now both of them must somehow try to return to a normal life, given their only too obvious lapses in moral judgment. As the husband and wife try hard to accommodate each other's failings and start to get to know each other again, Erik comes back into the picture. Now the three of them must resolve the deep-seated conflicts that brought them to this emotionally-wrought juncture of love and betrayal.

About Hugo Claus:

Born April 5, 1929, Brugge, Belgium, died March 19, 2008, Antwerp.

Belgian poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, director, and painter, renowned for his prolific energy and the versatility of his politically and socially challenging work. Many consider him to be Belgium’s greatest writer.

The son of a painter, Claus attended Roman Catholic boarding schools before fleeing to France, where as a teenager he worked in a sugar factory and as a farmhand. In Paris he began to associate with painters and poets and at age 18 published his first collection of poems.
Throughout a long career, Claus wrote thousands of poems, dozens of plays, and more than 20 novels, the most famous being his masterpiece, Het verdriet van België (1983; The Sorrow of Belgium), which drew on Claus’s own experience as a youth during the Nazi occupation. The dense, poetic work brought scrutiny to the morally suspect attitude of Flemish society toward Nazi treatment of Belgian Jews, nearly half of whom were exterminated during the war.
For years after the book’s publication, Claus was expected to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Other Belgian social and political legacies that featured in his work include the colonization of the Congo, the subject of two books, De geruchten (1996; “The Rumours”) and Onvoltooid verleden (1998; “Unfinished Past”).

Claus’s verse as well as his plays and films were controversial for their blunt treatment of sexuality, and the onstage nudity of his stage productions drew a kind of notoriety that expanded greatly in 1974 when Claus’s girlfriend, the actress Sylvia Kristel, starred in Emmanuelle, an erotic film that became a world sensation.

When Claus was diagnosed with Alzheimer disease, he elected to be euthanized, an act that is legal under certain conditions in Belgium. The decision brought the author one last brush with controversy.

more about Claus:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hclaus.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Claus



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