Is it a literary crime noir? A story about the creation of a literary crime noir? Or simply the product of a great deal of drugs and alcohol? That's a principal question behind Erik de Bruyn's big screen adaptation of Dutch cult novel
J Kessels. A sort of Dutch spin on the tradition that spawned the likes of
Barton Fink and
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas this one opens up the upcoming Netherlands Film Festival and the first trailer is freshly arrived.
J. KESSELS is both a hilarious road movie and a bittersweet trip down
memory lane, a crazy ride in a flame-adorned Toyata Kamikaze from
provincial Holland to Hamburg's Reeperbahn and back. And a hallucinatory
trip through the mind of an author, who no longer knows if his novel is
a product of his own imagination, or if he is actually living it.
Check out the trailer below.