Directed by:
Eddy TerstallCinematography:
Gábor DeákCast:
Roberta Petzoldt, Meral Polat, Márta Sebestyén, Lidija Stevanović, Goran Radakovic, Riquel Gilliard, Jerelino Augustuszoon, Anton Antonov, Nikolaj Christov (more)Plots(1)
A musical and psychological trip along the Orient Express route which leads from Venice to Istanbul. During the journey, a father and a daughter get to know each other after having been separated for a long time. Liza is a young Dutch woman who travels to Venice to meet her Italian father Mauro. Mauro has not seen Liza since she was three years old, when he and Liza's mother decided to split up. Mauro has traveled the world since as a musician. When Liza is in Venice it turns out there is more in store than just a couple of days in Venice. He takes Liza on a musical voyage along the route of the Orient Express. The journey takes them from Venice to the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, from the old town of Zagreb to the plains of northern Serbia, and from Bulgaria to Turkey. Many small adventures and meaningful encounters happen along the way. Father and daughter are much more alike than it appeared at first. Then, at the easternmost tip of Europe in Istanbul the story takes a dramatic turn. (Cinemax)
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The Netherlands is a country with whose movies I tend to have problems. They can make really good movies, but they can also make really weird movies as well. This one offered an interesting road trip undertaken by a daughter with her father, whom she got to know only recently, and that was exactly why I’d been looking forward to this movie so much. What’s also interesting about this movie for instance is the fact that the literal translation of the title means “Meet Me in Venice”, but only about the first ten minutes of the movie actually take place in Venice. It then takes place in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and eventually in Turkey. The only Dutch thing about this film is that the daughter speaks Dutch to the camera every now and then. So the only problem I had was with the actors, who I found very annoying at the beginning, but after a while I got used to them and the entire trip around the Balkans all of a sudden got a whole new dimension for me.
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