Sea of Time is a new drama directed by Theu Boersman, the director of 1000 Rosen. This is a comeback for him after 28 years as a cinema film director.
The film begins in the eighties where the couple Lucas (Reinout Scholten van Aschat) and Johanna (Sallie Harmsen) go on a sailing trip on the Atlantic Ocean with their son. After a disastrous and traumatic accident, everything changes and they part ways. Both are now trying to process this trauma in their own way.
When the two meet again after thirty-five years, both don't know how to interact with each other now. Should they ask how the other is coping with the trauma and can they now tell each other the secrets they have kept for years?
Theu Boersman knows how to make a good comeback as a director after 28 years, because he knows how to portray this film well and beautifully. He also knows how to convey the time in which the story takes place and to switch well between the eighties and the present. Here he also gets good help from the costume and make-up departments, because the clothes and hair styles show the times in which the film is set.
The story was written by Marieke van der Pol, but since 2009 this is the only story she has written independently. Unfortunately, the story doesn't always come across as strong. The story mainly tries to focus on how parents try to cope with trauma in their own different ways. Despite the heavy sides of the story, it itself lacks clear explanations and some details, leaving you as a viewer with some unanswered questions. The time changes also seem a bit unnecessary in the story. They should have done this only in the beginning and end of the movie and then just continued with a chronological story at the core. The acting is also somewhat varied. The film is more about how Sallie Harmsen and Reinout Scholten van Aschat their characters experience and process the trauma. Despite some lack of detail, Sallie manages to bring this to the fore. Reinout unfortunately sometimes acts a bit too exaggerated, which means that the credibility is lost. He does get help from an emotional soundtrack that plays as his character tries to face his trauma.
Father Gijs Scholten van Aschat does play the older version of Lucas appropriately. Since father and son are somewhat similar, it seems credible that these are older and younger versions of the same character with only a difference in the acting. Elsie de Brauw then plays the older version of Johanna, but both older actors don't get much time in the film compared to the younger actors. Both know well how to play older versions that over time have processed their traumas in their own ways, but only now have trouble with each other.
Sea of Time is a new drama directed by Theu Boersman, the director of 1000 Rosen. This is a comeback for him after 28 years as a cinema film director.
The film begins in the eighties where the couple Lucas (Reinout Scholten van Aschat) and Johanna (Sallie Harmsen) go on a sailing trip on the Atlantic Ocean with their son. After a disastrous and traumatic accident, everything changes and they part ways. Both are now trying to process this trauma in their own way.
When the two meet again after thirty-five years, both don't know how to interact with each other now. Should they ask how the other is coping with the trauma and can they now tell each other the secrets they have kept for years?
Theu Boersman knows how to make a good comeback as a director after 28 years, because he knows how to portray this film well and beautifully. He also knows how to convey the time in which the story takes place and to switch well between the eighties and the present. Here he also gets good help from the costume and make-up departments, because the clothes and hair styles show the times in which the film is set.
The story was written by Marieke van der Pol, but since 2009 this is the only story she has written independently. Unfortunately, the story doesn't always come across as strong. The story mainly tries to focus on how parents try to cope with trauma in their own different ways. Despite the heavy sides of the story, it itself lacks clear explanations and some details, leaving you as a viewer with some unanswered questions. The time changes also seem a bit unnecessary in the story. They should have done this only in the beginning and end of the movie and then just continued with a chronological story at the core. The acting is also somewhat varied. The film is more about how Sallie Harmsen and Reinout Scholten van Aschat their characters experience and process the trauma. Despite some lack of detail, Sallie manages to bring this to the fore. Reinout unfortunately sometimes acts a bit too exaggerated, which means that the credibility is lost. He does get help from an emotional soundtrack that plays as his character tries to face his trauma.
Father Gijs Scholten van Aschat does play the older version of Lucas appropriately. Since father and son are somewhat similar, it seems credible that these are older and younger versions of the same character with only a difference in the acting. Elsie de Brauw then plays the older version of Johanna, but both older actors don't get much time in the film compared to the younger actors. Both know well how to play older versions that over time have processed their traumas in their own ways, but only now have trouble with each other.
