Iris
Original post date: 21 May 1987
Rating: ✭✭✰✰
A few years ago, before I become a mature, responsible adult, I was in love with Monique van de Ven, the gorgeous Dutch actress who starred in Kathy Tippel and Turkish Delight. Call me sentimental, but I still get together with Monique once a year. She always comes to the film festival with her latest movie. One year I even got up the nerve to shout a question from the audience, and she answered it! (She didn’t come down into the audience and slap my face or anything!) Anyway, this year her movie is Iris, and she plays a big city veterinarian who opens a practice in a remote Dutch village where inbreeding among humans seems to be the norm. Her main clients are a weird family: Father is disgusting old man in a wheelchair; Son is good looking and randy; daughter is shy and zombie-like. There is also a Neanderthal handy man, who perpetually has three days growth of beard, and a clairvoyant alcoholic lady living in a trailer. Monique’s, I mean Iris’s, yuppie architect husband is against the whole thing. The village people don’t take to Iris. Weird things keep happening to her. There is a threatening feeling in the air. And every man makes vague allusions to the fact that he “sure could use a woman.” But if any of them are thinking about putting on a ski mask and raping her (and Lord knows there would be plenty of suspects), he better think twice because she is the type to fight back and she still has the knife that she uses for castrating pigs. This movie is sort of an odd mixture of All Creatures Great and Small and Wait Until Dark. If you’ve always wanted to see a pig castrated (no special effects here) and see a calf be birthed in full detail and then get mouth-to-mouth from A beautiful actress because it’s not breathing, then this is definitely your movie
Rating: ✭✭✰✰
A few years ago, before I become a mature, responsible adult, I was in love with Monique van de Ven, the gorgeous Dutch actress who starred in Kathy Tippel and Turkish Delight. Call me sentimental, but I still get together with Monique once a year. She always comes to the film festival with her latest movie. One year I even got up the nerve to shout a question from the audience, and she answered it! (She didn’t come down into the audience and slap my face or anything!) Anyway, this year her movie is Iris, and she plays a big city veterinarian who opens a practice in a remote Dutch village where inbreeding among humans seems to be the norm. Her main clients are a weird family: Father is disgusting old man in a wheelchair; Son is good looking and randy; daughter is shy and zombie-like. There is also a Neanderthal handy man, who perpetually has three days growth of beard, and a clairvoyant alcoholic lady living in a trailer. Monique’s, I mean Iris’s, yuppie architect husband is against the whole thing. The village people don’t take to Iris. Weird things keep happening to her. There is a threatening feeling in the air. And every man makes vague allusions to the fact that he “sure could use a woman.” But if any of them are thinking about putting on a ski mask and raping her (and Lord knows there would be plenty of suspects), he better think twice because she is the type to fight back and she still has the knife that she uses for castrating pigs. This movie is sort of an odd mixture of All Creatures Great and Small and Wait Until Dark. If you’ve always wanted to see a pig castrated (no special effects here) and see a calf be birthed in full detail and then get mouth-to-mouth from A beautiful actress because it’s not breathing, then this is definitely your movie
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