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Load of rubbish!!

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I don't think so. Her character is central to the whole thing. She is SURROUNDED by fat, awful, piggish men who had to have had complete access to her since she was the local whore. And somehow we're supposed to believe that she was this delightful ray of sunshine.Aspects of the story may be true . . . I don't know . . . but I cannot buy the core ingredient as it's being sold.Nope.

When I first read about this movie I was pleasantly surprised. Making a movie about Oss in the Netherlands depicting the problems (crime, poverty) in the 1930's. I read a lot about what happened in that period. Moreover my grandfather was a member of the Marechaussee in Oss in those days. He was – to say the least – responsible for the arrest of a lot of those criminals in that period. That's why I have to say, that this movie doesn't give an accurate picture of the situation in that period. Not at all to be honest. There are a couple of persons (whose names are different in the movie of course) who really existed in those days and have committed the crimes that you can see in the movie. But apart from that the movie isn't historically correct. Well, that doesn't have to be a problem of course, since most of the viewers know nothing of what happened during those days in and around Oss. So it doesn't bother me really. What does bother me really very much is the fact that in the end of the movie people can read on the screen that many of the Marechaussee members joined the NSB (a pro Nazi movement in Holland in those days). That is absolutely not true. There may have been a few, but most of them joined the underground resistance, who helped American and British pilots to escape from the Germans). In my opinion the movie makers should have been more careful in making such a statement. Apart from that it is not a bad movie. The settings are OK as well as the clothing, the speech (dialect the people speak). The movie depicts the atmosphere of life in those days in a Dutch small city. All in all a nice movie to watch on a rainy afternoon. But keep in mind that the link to the real situation in those days isn't really present in the movie (well maybe for about 5%).

De bende van Oss provides a convincing historical image of a dark period influenced by the obscene marriage of capitalism and catholicism in the southern part of the Netherlands during the thirties of the 20th century, concentrated in a small town by the name of Oss. De bende means 'the gang' but has another meaning as well: terrible disorder, filth, dirt. Exploitation of workers, bribe, blackmail, rape and murder became a hopeless daily routine and in the end 'de bende' even reached the Dutch Government at the time. The daring and wonderfully detailed script is based on a mosaic of true stories, gathered from a longer period of time: from the late 19th century up to WW II in which the industrialization in Oss took place. As the police from the north of the Netherlands comes in to restore law and order, a young woman - Jean Harlow blond Sylvia Hoeks can play effortless all the necessary looks - tries to escape from her fate as a whore and from the filth that surrounds her and her family, deeply involved in crime as well. In the end she succeeds, but she - as Godmother Maria, dressed in a blue blanket - has to pay a high price. After an amazing shoot out that reminds the spectator of High Noon, she manages - with many others - to flee on a steamer bound for the United States - just before WW II breaks out - to start a new life. De bende van Oss is a unique movie because of the documentary structured base which turns the dramatic story into a true story, instead of the other way around, thanks to the highly intelligent script, written by director André van Duren en Paul Jan Nelissen.Richard Fokker / Hoogland / the Netherlands / 2011-11-22 / Scriptwriter / art historian.

This movie gives an excellent idea of how life in a criminal gang was - in a small city in the Dutch outback (Oss, North-Brabant) in the 1930's. How the gang, with the help of the Roman Church and factory-owners, could flourish in a mental climate of hatred against the national government and it's military police ('marechaussee'). 'We from Oss', catholic southerners, speaking a different dialect against 'Them' - the Dutch occupiers, mostly protestants who speak 'high' dutch and who use the marechaussee to keep the Oss'ians down under. It's an honest film which tries to follow history more or less precise. By placing one member of the gang in the middle of the story (a woman, bar-owner and prostitute) it personalizes this history. The way she is portrayed in her attempt to get rid of the gang life and flee with one of her lovers is convincing and phenomenal! In the beginning she is only shrewd" an opportunist, only out for the money and for her own survival. But later on we see that she does care and she does have a morale, a conscience. It;s not black and white. And therefore - and for the fine actors, good dialogs and historical props - it's an excellent film in my opinion.