Word: maarten
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...starring Maarten Smit, Andrew...
During the Winter Hunger of 1944, children from the ravaged west of the country were taken in by farmers and fishermen in the northern province of Friesland, where food was plentiful and the German presence slight. 12-year old Jeroen (Maarten Smit) goes to live with Hair (Feark Smink) and Mem (Elsje de Wijn). Smit and director Roeland Kerbosch do a good job of depicting Jeroen's multifold alienation. Though his mother has sent him to Friesland for his own good, Jeroen feels abandoned by her. He finds himself a city kid in the country, where everything, even the language...
...film winds down to its bittersweet conclusion, one can't help but be amazed at Maarten Smit's achievement. Smit, trained in a special acting school for children, is brilliant. Jeroen Boman is a difficult role to bring off, but Smit succeeds spectacularly. He reminds one of Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver." Trained as a classical ballet dancer, this is Andrew Kelley's debut as an actor, and it shows. However, this works to the film's advantage, since Walt is really a symbol, magnified and perfected by Jeroen's memory. Feark Smink does a marvelous turn as Jeroen...
Collectively, this new generation of ground-based instruments will open an extraordinary new window on the cosmos. "What we can look forward to," says Caltech astronomer Maarten Schmidt, "is the biggest gain in telescope power in the past 50, maybe even 100 years." It should bring into focus the most distant quasars yet and even planets orbiting other stars...