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Bride Flight
Directed by
Ben Sombogaart
R
2008
2h 9m
Drama
,
Romance
7.0
67%
75%
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A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.
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Cast of Bride Flight
Karina Smulders
Ada
Waldemar Torenstra
Frank
Anna Drijver
Esther
Rutger Hauer
Old Frank
Pleuni Touw
Old Ada
Petra Laseur
Old Marjorie
Elise Schaap
Marjorie
Willeke van Ammelrooy
Old Esther
Rawiri Paratene
Old Mosie
Janine Horsburgh
Mrs. Young
Micha Hulshof
Derk Visser
Mattijn Hartemink
Hans Doorman
Ben Sombogaart
Director
Marieke van der Pol
Writer
Hanneke Niens
Producer
Anton Smit
Producer
Bride Flight Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Smug and unconvincing, this 2008 period drama from the Netherlands is the sort of movie that defines an era solely by its prejudices, on the implicit assumption that we'll applaud the central characters for their modern attitudes.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
"Bride Flight" is undeniably pretty to look at, and the performers do what they can (Drivjer is quite good as the brash Esther). But it's too silly and overheated to be accepted as fact or fiction.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
This very pretty melodrama is a rather ordinary entry.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The events in the plot are the stuff of soap opera, but the movie treats it seriously, and the acting is convincing enough that we forgive the story and begin to care about the characters.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
Lovely scenery and historical context elevate the sentimental story lines above the soap opera domain.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
A tearjerking romance that belongs to another era, when female moviegoers wanted to be transported, not grounded in grim realities.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
For anyone who shrugs at today's movies and thinks "they don't make 'em like they used to," here's a classy, good-looking chick flick in the old-school tradition.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
"Bride Flight'' is the sort of old-fashioned women's picture they stopped making around the time Christina Crawford had to put away the wire hangers.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
One should never discount the appeal of pretty people in pretty places.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's compelling in a middling miniseries kind of way -- expansive but not terribly deep.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
This Dutch melodrama compels despite its formulaic elements.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Sombogaart approaches his soapy subject with just enough restraint. As a result, you can convince yourself it's a highbrow arthouse film even as you're swooning and sniffling over so many tangled love stories.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The kind of lush, epic romantic weepie that Hollywood used to deliver on a regular basis for packed matinees at Radio City Music Hall.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The weepy story at the heart of "Bride Flight" is trumped by its sumptuous depiction of New Zealand in the 1950s and '60s. This lushness has the effect of a powerful fabric softener added to the wash.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Bride Flight gives a panoramic sweep of lives as they're lived, as there is a lot of beauty in it.
AV Club
Sam Adams
The subtitles and period setting conjure a smattering of respectability, but in essence, this is arthouse pap, particularly for older audiences, turning the past into a concatenation of worn-out tropes that comforts as it distorts.
Observer
Rex Reed
Bride Flight is the most lavishly entertaining Dutch film since Paul Verhoeven's fabulous The Black Book.
Village Voice
Michelle Orange
The flashbacks dominate, playing like wet-inked storyboards: pioneer women forced into patriarch games; a baby born in secrecy and raised in deceit; Jewish legacy lost and found.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
While each of the three women are given their particular dilemmas, none are sufficiently fleshed out beyond the demands of the story's limited situations.
Variety
Boyd van Hoeij
As in Twin Sisters, a veneer of nostalgia, plus excellent lensing and acting, make the soap-opera plot play on the bigscreen.
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