| De jurk | |
| Director: | Alex van Warmerdam |
| Producer: | Marc van Warmerdam Ton Schippers Alex van Warmerdam |
| Cinematography: | Marc Felperlaan |
| Editing: | Rene Wiegmans |
| Music: | Alex van Warmerdam |
| Studio: | Graniet Film |
| Distributor: | Meteor Film Distribution |
| Runtime: | 103 minutes |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Language: | Dutch |
The Dress (nl|'''De jurk''') is a 1996 Dutch black comedy drama film written and directed by Alex van Warmerdam.
The Dress is a tale filled with sex, violence, misery, comedy, and drama as it follows the life of a dress and parade of lives. Conceived under a cloud of frustration and despair by the dressmaker, the dress becomes a wheel of misfortune in an extraordinary sequence of events that envelopes the dress and those fatefully drawn into its universe. An aloof artist, a schoolgirl, an unfulfilled maid, a borderline train conductor and a broken business executive, all become involuntary players in a macabre game of tag. No one who comes in contact with the dress until it reaches its destination.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 80% based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 6.90/10.[1]
David Rooney of Variety magazine said that "Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam, spins an eventful narrative out of the story of an inanimate object in his third feature, The Dress. Charting the effect the titular garment has on a string of men and women, the director does a mechanically impressive job of sustaining what feels like an exercise in narrative construction".[2]