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Bookmark this pageIn Orange (2004)
Director: Joram Lürsen
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From Time Out London
The Dutch invest a lot into their children’s films, as this rites-of-passage tale embracing football and bereavement amply demonstrates. Twelve-year-old Remco is obsessed with playing for the Dutch national team – ‘in orange’ – but zeal flounders when know-it-all dad Thomas Acda suddenly dies. Soon though, dad’s appearing to Remco and conducting coaching sessions from beyond the grave, which include a kickabout with Garrincha, Bobby Moore and other ghosts of football past. Just about keeping the sentimentality reined in, ‘In Orange’ never patronises its young hero and has enough narrative step-overs and shimmies to keep you glued.Author: NFu
Time Out London Issue 1835: October 19-26 2005
Cast & crew
Director: Joram Lürsen
Cast: Thomas Acda, Yannick van de Velde, Wendy van Dijk full cast
Genre(s): Children's, Drama
Duration: 90 mins
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