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Paradise Trips (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
89 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2015 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Croatia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Raf Reyntjens

Written By:
Raf Reyntjens

Actors:
Gene Bervoets ..... Mario Dockers
Noortje Herlaar ..... Miranda
Pascal Maetens ..... Walther
Jeroen Perceval ..... Jim Dockers
Line Pillet ..... Cindy
Hannes Reckelbus ..... Fox
Marie Louise Stheins ..... Esmeralda
Charlotte Timmers ..... Flora
Cédric Van Den Abbeele ..... Sunny
Tania Van der Sanden ..... Linda
Pieter Verelst ..... Lexander

Synopsis:

Holiday bus driver Mario has spent his entire life shuttling old age pensioners to the sunny south with his own travel company 'Paradise Trips'. Today, on the verge of his own retirement, Mario has to bring a motley crew of alternative partygoers to a psychedelic festival in Croatia. The journey soon turns into a fascinating trip that confronts Mario with his own prejudices and his long-lost son.

Dutch tour-bus company owner/driver Mario (Gene Bervoets) is miserable in retirement, cranky and uncommunicative with wife Linda (Tania Van der Sanden) despite her valiant attempts to engage him. Rather than accept her proposal that they take a vacation together, he leaps at his former business partner's emergency request that he take over a group rental trip to Croatia. It's an assignment, however, to which he could hardly be more ill-suited, personality-wise: He's a culturally conservative control freak now stuck driving a busload of unkempt, disrespectful twentysomething ravers to a week-long electronica festival. The journey is bad enough; upon arriving, he's even more disgusted by so much latter-day 'dirty hippie'-dom, despite the efforts of Esmeralda (Marie Louise Steihns), an Earth Mother-ly woman his own age, to chill his hot-tempered vibes. A small bright spot is his sympathetic encounter with Sunny (Cedric Van Den Abbeele), the inaptly named young son of easygoing rental-group leader Miranda (Noortje Herlaar). Sunny is equally unhappy to be here, pronouncing Mario 'the first normal person I've seen.'

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 29 January, 2016.