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| Wild Mussels is a film full of desire, friendship and romance. A beautiful, raw and lyrical film about "happiness is a foreign landscape". Great dialogues in dry-comical dialect (PAROOL)
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| A talent as de Bruyn, which worked for five years on his film, is rare in our filmculture, because he unites impossible extremities: genrefilm and art-house-product, realism and mythology, speed
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| and contemplation, regionalism and universality… (NRC)
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| A vital and self-willed film, with comical and tragical escalating incidents, dream-images and surrealistic enlargements of everyday actions. Shot with flexible virtuosity. (VN)
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| There is excellent acting, in which especially Fedja van Huet springs a suprise in a much burlier leading part as he portrayed in the Oscar-winning Character… (UTRECHTS NIEUWSBLAD)
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| A daring, versatile soundtrack… Wild Mussels deserves a place on the rostrum, next to Character and the Polish Bride. In 'Zeeuwse' expression: a dyke of a movie… (HP DE TIJD)
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| AWARDS:
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| DUTCH FILMCRITICS AWARD 2000
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| CJP YOUTH AWARD 2000
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| NOMINATED FOR THE DUTCH FILM AWARDS: BEST ACTOR & BEST SCRIPT 2000
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| AWARD BEST FILM, AMSTERDAM ART FOUNDATION 2001
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| RUSSIAN FILMCRITICS AWARD BEST EUROPEAN FILM, MIFF 2001
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