Antonia's Line

Antonia's Line

  • Director: Marleen Gorris
  • Countries of origin: Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, France
  • Language: Dutch
  • Release date: February 2, 1996
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Memorias de Antonia
  • "Antonia's Line" is a feature film released by Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd., directed by Marleen Gorris and starring Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans , Els Dottermans , and Hiller . It was released in the UK on September 12, 1995.
    The film tells the story of a woman named Antonia who spent most of her life adopting children and forming a huge "Antonia family"   .

    Details

    • Release date February 2, 1996
    • Filming locations Neuville-aux-Tourneurs, Belgium
    • Production companies Bergen, Prime Time, Bard Entertainments

    Box office

    Budget

    £1,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $4,228,275

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $45,051

    Gross worldwide

    $4,249,321

    Movie reviews

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    • By Allan 2022-11-04 03:19:49

      Anthony's death

      With its powerful deconstruction ability, this film dismantles various creeds and ways of life endowed with justice by modern civilization, which not only contain the reality of religion and human nature, but also imply the entanglement between male and female rights, material and soul. It calmly withdraws the goodness constructed by moral self-consciousness in a simple society, forcing us to re-examine many seemingly fixed issues. And the last part of this is the death of Antonie....

    • By Nestor 2022-04-19 09:02:45

      "The Antonia Family"

      A: After watching "Antonia Family", it's not bad! 4 Women's Stories
      B: Hehe, feminists will definitely like it
      A : After reading it, I feel that the continuation of life is very important. Life is no more than that, but with new life, everything has a continuation
      B : Some people commented that the method of this movie is magic realism
      A: What is magic realism?
      B: I think the part where her grandma sat up from the coffin and sang, that is. I like this kind of...

    • By Julius 2022-04-19 09:02:45

      The story of reproduction

      Danielle is really avant-garde. He completely treats men as reproductive tools. He has sex with the motorcycle boy a few times, and then he stands upside down to let the semen flow into the uterus so that the pregnancy can be successful. Teresa is a genius, learning mathematics, philosophy, etc. at an unusual speed. Danielle and Teresa's female teacher become gay sex, the priest has sex with the woman who helps Teresa find a stallion, Antonia has sex with the farmer, two mentally retarded sex,...

    • By Destinee 2022-01-21 08:02:43

      Nonstop time

      Nothing will die forever. Some things will last forever in the things that are left behind. New things are growing, so life begins like this. Although I don’t know where I came from, I don’t know why it exists or why. So because life wants to live and time conquer time. Children are born. Although there are not so many children born like Lata, this is enough to make the world go round. Sometimes time crawls forward slowly, just like a tired turtle sometimes. It tears its life apart in an...

    • By Kaela 2022-01-21 08:02:43

      Happy women-Antonia's Line

      One morning, Antonia woke up and looked in the mirror. She said that the time for death had arrived.

      Then, we saw a woman taking her daughter back to her hometown, a small village in the Netherlands, to attend her mother's funeral. At this time, the Second World War had just ended. This woman was Antonia when she was young.

      Antonia is strong and capable. After her mother was buried, she lived in the village alone with her daughter Danielle. Bas, a farmer in the village, is a...

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    • By Scarlett 2023-09-29 17:16:23

      A woman's hundred years of...

    • By Adah 2023-09-14 15:32:05

      The idea was so fashionable back then, wanting a child but not needing a husband. Sure enough, the concept of learning art will be more advanced than ordinary people. The scene that left a deep impression was when the rapist was beaten by the villagers and asked his competitor for help. At first, the competitor was carrying him. I thought he was trying to save him. Drowned in the water tank, very...

    • By Pinkie 2023-09-11 00:02:30

      A family history can seem...

    • By Nestor 2023-07-15 06:37:55

      This is the true presentation of life, reminiscent of a hundred years of...

    • By Eriberto 2023-07-02 13:14:44

      Nothing lasts forever, even if it is as brilliant as a shooting star, it just leaves a name in the long stream of history. Antonia, a big family of kinship and non-kinship, also experienced birth, old age, sickness and death. It is a bit far-fetched to be involved in feminism. It is only a female film from the perspective of a female director. Winning the Oscar for a foreign language film that year does not mean that this film can be listed as the best...

    Movie plot

    After World War II, Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy ) returned to her hometown with her 16-year-old daughter Daniele ( Els Dottermans ) . Soon, the employee who had been rescued by her "Stupid Mouth" came to defect and became a new member of the "family". Later, Daniele rescued the demented female who was about to be raped by his brother Pitai and took her home. Farmer Buss also became a member of the "family" after being rejected from...
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    Evaluation action

    "Antonia's Line" is a movie that abandons men, wittyly ridiculing society. The film depicts a life picture composed of many characters in the family, and is permeated with peaceful and healthy humor, which is full of wit (China Net Review)  .
    "Antonia's Line" is known for its many family characters, rich life pictures, healthy personalities and humor. Although it is a feminist film, it is full of wit.
    The film humorously tells the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Verteller: The proverb is wrong. Time does not heal all wounds. It merely softens the pain and blurs the memories.

    • Verteller: [First lines] Even before the sun had risen, Antonia knew that her days were numbered. She knew more than that, she knew that this would be her last day. Not that she felt unwell. But, unlike others, Antonia knew when enough was enough.

    • Antonia: Yes. It's time to die.