Moniek Toebosch
Actor · 1948 – 2012 · Breda, The Netherlands
Monique Pauline Maria Josephine (Moniek) Toebosch was a Dutch actress and artist.
Movies17
Movie5.6DramaHorrorIn a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another. "Pentimento" is an art-historical term for a hidden image underneath the actual image giving an indication of how the latter evolved to its current state.
Pentimento
1979 · 14 votes
Movie8.0The central element in this film is formed by the preparation for and execution of a performance. The performance, a parachute jump, is carried out by an artist (Perrenet) and his girlfriend during the opening of an exhibition. As spectators to the performance, which takes place in the artist’s studio, an art dealer and several friends have been invited. The art dealer enters first, followed by Armand, who looks at some paintings made by Zwartjes; they spout the usual ‘gallery nonsense’. The art dealer appears most interested in the girlfriend. ‘My latest creation’ is how Amand introduces her. The guests who arrive thereafter are introduced in short, independent sections.
In Extremo
1981 · 1 votes
- Movie4.5Romance
Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of the film's editing and the tactile quality of the images. - MIFF
Seats Two
1970 · 2 votes
Movie6.6DocumentarySet on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space by using a ‘floating’ camera to film a number of crawling, creeping personages. (MUBI)
Bedsitters
1974 · 7 votes
Movie6.0DramaHes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world.
- Movie
Zwartjes' reflections on Beckett, situated between trees.
Beyond
1992
- Movie8.0
Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.
Eating
1969 · 1 votes
- Movie4.8ComedyDrama
De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.
- Movie6.0Documentary
Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between husband and wife. It is a relationship that is strongly marked by power and domination, sexual attraction and repulsion. It manifests itself in humiliation and abuse (such Pentimento), but also in cool eroticism or natural physicality. Zwartjes’ goal is not to explain or designate this relationship. Rather it is the subject that Zwartjes uses to describe his world. In an article on Zwartjes, filmmaker and student George Schouten compares Zwartjes to the Italian writer Alberto Moravia. For both, sex is their way of dealing with reality. It is the subject by which they define their world. And for Zwartjes, it is also the subject with which he can display and develop his cinematic talent. (eyefilm.nl)
Spectator
1970 · 10 votes
Movie5.2DramaZwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with his brother Rudolf and Lodewijk de Boer. Audition is a fine example of a Zwartjes film with an important soundtrack. It is a visual improvisation of cinematography and acting. There is hardly a ‘story line’. A man and a woman watch another woman singing, predominantly in exciting black and white images.
Audition
1973 · 6 votes
- Movie
An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.
Dolls
1968
Movie5.0Documentary"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the American essayist Susan Sontag.
- Movie
Film shot entirely in the open air with women walking around a garden, life-sized photos in the grass and people at the table. A film from the series Home Sweet Home.
Movie4.0CrimeDramaThe actual life and the fiction created by a successful pulp author begin to blend together.
Paul Chevrolet en de ultieme hallucinatie
Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination
1985 · 3 votes
- Movie5.2Drama
Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like crisp paper about to be despoiled, a torpid heat reduces movement to fidgets and hesitations. - MIFF
Behind Your Walls
1970 · 9 votes
- Movie4.5Drama
An experimental look at the sexual life of a couple.
Spare Bed-Room
1969 · 4 votes
- Movie5.8MusicComedy
A musical comedy. One God creates the world, the other destroys the creation and hopes to make a better job of it.