Special guest
Filmmaker Martin Koolhoven is coming to The Lighthouse Film Club! In this special edition, we’ll watch the film Spirited Away together and have a discussion afterward with Martin Koolhoven, moderated by lecturers Chris Heydra and Thijs Bos.
Martin Koolhoven is one of the most well-known Dutch filmmakers. His films have earned 16 Golden Calves, 30 nominations, and numerous international film awards. His best-known films include Het Schnitzelparadijs, based on Khalid Boudou’s novel, Oorlogswinter, based on the book by Jan Terlouw, and the 2016 western Brimstone, which he both wrote and directed. His film Oorlogswinter drew nearly 1 million visitors to the cinema.
Free entry for students and staff, as always!
Spirited Away (2001)
Spirited Away opens with a family outing that ends up at an abandoned amusement park where the parents of ten-year-old Chihiro are promptly transformed into enormous pigs. The park turns out to be a resting place for all sorts of gods and spirits who have finished their time among humans. Chihiro, along with her friend Haku, learns the absurd rules of her new, precariously capitalist world and transforms from an ordinary spoiled girl into a confident heroine. For many years, it was the most-watched animated film in its homeland Japan and marked Miyazaki's breakthrough to a wide audience in the West, where this unforgettable adventure won a Golden Bear and an Oscar.
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