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Word: schuurman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country bordered on one side by Kafka, on the other by Dickens, or, if you insist on being literal, in dank, gloomy Rotterdam in the 1920s. He is the product of a one-night liaison between a chilly, brutal man named Dreverhaven (Jan Decleir) and his stony housekeeper (Betty Schuurman), sex that one suspects was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for both of them. He keeps asking her to marry him, she keeps refusing him, and he takes his frustration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Power Of Character | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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