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(More customer reviews)I was shopping for a movie in the foreign movie section at my local library the other day, and noticed this movie, which I immediately picked up, for one since it is a Dutch movie (I'm from the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium).
"Johan" (97 min,; originally released in 2006 in the Netherlands) has an intruiging promise. Born as the 11th son in a soccer-crazy family (and hence 'completing' the team), it turns out that Johan actually hates soccer. Johan eventually quits the family soccer team, and tries to find his own way as a singer-songwriter (the actor playing Johan is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter in real life). Meanwhile Johan falls in love with a local girl, who (for reasons never made clear in the movie) eventually bags Johan for one of his brothers, a soccer-star in the making, and even marries him. You'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.
This was a pleasant movie, nothing more, nothing less. There are tons of scenes and references in the movie relating to Dutch soccer (and its national team) that will go straight over your head if you are not familiar with them. Very strangely, the DVD box proclaims this to be the "male" version of "Bend It Like Beckham", the pleasant little movie about an Indian London girl who finds joy in soccer, despite her family. This movie is in fact the exact opposite: how a guy fins joy outside of soccer and his soccer-mad family. Wow.
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