J. Kessels

Original Title: J. Kessels

107' | 2015 (Completed)

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Director:	Erik de Bruyn
Producer:	Koen Mortier, Eurydice Gysel
Writer:	Jan Eilander

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Frans, a crime novelist, is putting the finishing touches to the first sentence of a new bestseller: 'It all started with a phone call that I really could have done without.' The phone in Frans' study starts to ring annoyingly. Frans answers and ... the movie is underway!

synopsis

J. Kessels is a comic road movie and a melancholy trip down memory lane rolled into one. It is a film about a wild ride in a classic American car, from Tilburg to the Reeperbahn in Hamburg and back again. And also about a hallucinatory journey through the mind of a writer. A writer who asks himself: is his book the product of his imagination or is he himself starring in someone else's story?
J. Kessels is het verhaal van de bizarre roadtrip van de literaire pulpschrijver Frans met zijn favoriete personage J. Kessels. In opdracht van een onbekende rijden ze in Kessels’ oude Amerikaanse ‘Kamikaze’ roestbak van Tilburg naar de Hamburgse Reeperbahn, op zoek naar een vreemdgaande frikadellenhandelaar. En dan ligt er plots een lijk in de achterbak van de Kamikaze: makkelijk gevonden maar hoe kom je er vanaf? J. Kessels is gebaseerd op het boek 'J. Kessels' van P.F. Thomése.

Credits

Director
Erik de Bruyn
Producer
Koen Mortier, Eurydice Gysel
Writer
Jan Eilander
Cast
Fedja van Huêt, Ruben van der Meer, Romi Van Renterghem, Marc Lauwrys, Bert Huysentruyt, Annick Christiaens
Editing
JP Luijsterburg
Photography
Danny Elsen
Art direction
Ben Zuydwijk
Sound
Dirk Bombey, Peter Warnier
Music
Bjorn Eriksson

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Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Fiction
Production share
Minority Flemish co-production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

2015
Production status
Completed
Original title
J. Kessels

Technical specs

Running time
107'
Available in
3D
Sound format
5.1 (+ sub)
Available formats
DCP
Colour
Colour

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Contact

Czar Film & TV

Koolmijnenkaai 30
1080 Brussel
Belgium

T +32 2 413 07 70
eurydice@czar.be

www.czar.be

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Festivals & awards

Festivals

2016: South by Southwest
2015: Opening film - Nederlands Film Festival (NL), International Arthouse Filmfestival of Chicago (USA)

Awards

2015: Best Production Design Award for Ben Zuydwijk - International Arthouse Filmfestival of Chicago (USA)

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Co-production partners

Czar Film

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Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and Screen Flanders

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J. Kessels

synopsis

Credits

Director

Producer

Writer

Cast

Editing

Photography

Art direction

Sound

Music

Format

Creation details

Type

Category

Production share

Genre

Year of production

Production status

Original title

Technical specs

Running time

Available in

Sound format

Available formats

Colour