| Kleine Teun | |
| Director: | Alex van Warmerdam |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Language: | Dutch |
Little Tony (Dutch; Flemish: Kleine Teun) is a 1998 Dutch comedy film drama directed by Alex van Warmerdam. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
In a review for Variety, David Rooney called the film "[a] droll comedy", but also mentioning that its "both blacker and more tightly focused".[2]
Farmer Brand can't read and he is quite happy with that. His wife, Keet, who has to read him all the subtitles on the television, isn't. She decides to hire a teacher for him. This is a beautiful young woman, called Lena. Brand falls in love with her. To his puzzlement and dismay Keet encourages him, because as she says she doesn't want a husband with another woman in his head. She even goes so far as to claim, she's just Brand's sister. She also wants Lena to give Brand and her a son. The love between Brand and Lena does not grow stale as Keet hoped after the birth of little Tony. Keet, who is a barren herself decides Lena has to be eliminated with the arrival of little Tony between them.