Black Butterflies at Tribeca Film Festival

Black Butterflies (2011). Photo: www.theaterguide.nl

Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 9:00 PM (world premier)

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 7 - New York, NY

Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 3:30 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6 - New York, NY

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 3:30 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 6 - New York, NY

Friday, April 29, 2011 at 10:00 PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 5 - New York, NY

For tickets
For an article on Carice van Houten reflecting on her latest role as a tragic poet in the Wall Street Journal by Elizabeth Fitzherbert (April 1, 2011).
For a review by Leslie-Stonebraker in the New York Press (April 22,2011).

A film, by Paula van der Oest, about poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's Sylvia Plath. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten, Black Book) finds her freedom scrawling verse while frittering through a series of stormy affairs. Amid escalating quarrels with her lovers and her government-censor father (Rutger Hauer), the poet witnesses an unconscionable event that will alter her life's course.

Black Butterflies is nominated for Tribeca Film Festival's world narrtive competition.    

Trailer Black Butterflies (2011)

In her native country The Netherlands, Carice van Houten (1976) has become one of the most beloved actresses. She won several awards, including four Golden Calves for best actress and was voted ‘Best Dutch Actress of All Time’ by the Dutch audience in 2008. Her stunning performance in Paul Verhoeven’s war epic Black Book marked the beginning of Carice’s international breakthrough. In the Tom Cruise/ Bryan Singer film Valkerie, she stars in the female lead as Nina Von Stauffenberg.

In 2006 Carice shines as Jewish singer Rachel Stein in Paul Verhoeven’s critically acclaimed Black Book. For her role in Black Book Carice receives her third Golden Calf for best actress. In The Netherlands the film is exclaimed the best Dutch film of all times. Her role in Black Book launches Carice’s international career.

 

Rutger Hauer was born in Breukelen, Netherlands, the town lending its name to NYC neighbourhood Brooklyn. It has been twenty years since Hauer took the American movie scene by storm. What most Americans don't know is that Rutger has had a very successful film career before he was ever known to American artists. His first turn at movies found him teamed up with Paul Verhoven (RoboCop, Starship Troopers) in the highly acclaimed Turkish Delight. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture and went on to become the most successful film in Dutch history.  From there, Rutger starred in many highly acclaimed roles including the Verhoven masterpiece Soldier of Orange.