After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he's dumbfounded, for she's the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he's not the only one who's looking for Eileen.
Acting
Thom Hoffman's unraveling is exquisite cringe
Cinematography
Amsterdam's gray intimacy becomes a character
Writing
The doppelgänger twist that keeps twisting
Director
Rudolf van den Berg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lysette Anthony was a British soap star; casting her doubled the 'familiar stranger' effect for European audiences.
The IRA subtext isn't decoration—Eileen's Northern Irish identity makes her literal displacement mirror Philip's psychological exile.
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