October 2, 2011

De witte (1980)


Famous Flemish drama
-Year: 1980
-Year in film: 1901 
-Country: Belgium
-Who in clothing: boy ~ 12 ys, sailor suit 
-Who in clothing 2: other boys, girl, sailor suit, other clothing
-Available on DVD: yes
-I own: yes DVD
-Clothing occurence: low
-Rating:  5/10 * 
-Rating: *****
-Comment: One boy in blue sailor suit (pictured above), one or 2 other younger boys on a flying swing at a funfair (pic bottom left) one in short striped light blue sailor suit and at least 2 girls ~10-12 ys in sailor dresses (pic bottom right, background), in in beige and another one on left in I think light blue dress, not sure if it's a real sailor dress, but I think with a collar. I don't know their names (they are not the main characters). All scenes are short but the boy above gets dirty while tearing to the ground and scuffling. Some batting scenes, but I don't tag this with spanking as they are not with sailor suits nor Lederhosen.

Also a lot of others good historical clothings of Belgium in the 1900s. And last not least a quite long skinny dipping scene of some boys (~10-12 ys, incl. Clerckx as "De witte"), also going out of the water.

A good and interesting feature film (remake of 1934), aka "De witte van Sichem", international title "Whitey", starring 12 yo Eric Clerckx (pictured top left on left and bottom right on right), famous novel by Ernest Claes.
I have seen it on TV in the 90s and also bought the DVD. Also good farm scenes, landscape scenes, and scenes at school and with costumes and nightshirts and of altar boys. But for the few short sailor suit scenes, only rating 5-6 (film is better ~rating 7, but there are also similar and I think better ones set in 1900s). I don't watch it often.

DVD is PAL RC0, Dutch language with English and French subtitles. Also good extras like a documentary also showing some scenes of the 1934 version, a short film and trailers of other Flemish films including "Blueberry Hill (1989)" where a boy is also being humiliated and taken his clothes away.


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