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Article (in English and Dutch):
"Derek de Lint Home Again
in Roeland Kerbosch 's
Affair Play"

1995
Affair Play/AfFair Play

Derek de Lint as "Alex Witsen"

Cast:

Lysette Anthony - "Lisa"
Bill Sage - "Mickey"
Ann Hasekamp - "Caroline"
Valerie Valentine - "Julia"
Boudewijn de Groot - "Simon West"

Crew:

Writer - Bastiaan Gieben
Producer - Matthijs van Heijningen
Script - Roeland Kerbosch, Bastiaan Gieben
Sound - Ludo Keeris
Camera - Nils Post
Art Director. - Ben van Os, Constance de Vos
Editing - Ewout Hendriksen
Music - Laurens van Rooyen
Cinematography - Nils Post

A thriller about obsessive jealousy and manipulation.

The following is a 5/24/95 not-so-rave film review by Huib Stam, translated by Richard van Bilsen & edited by me:

Main character is Alex Witsen, played with style by Derek de Lint, who is a very wealthy but lonely diamond-trader with a preference for erotic art. He meets an indifferent American, Lisa (Lysette Anthony) who looks just like his childhood sweetheart who died by Alex' fault. They get married shortly after but then the trouble begins. The past is creeping up on them. Next to that, Alex is incredibly jealous. He develops a jealousy-as-self-torture therapy for himself. He hires the good-looking professional golfer, Mickey (played by Hal Hartley-actor Bill Sage) to seduce Lisa. With his binoculars he watches from across the street. When Lisa withstands Mickey, then he will know for sure that she is faithful. Then he is suprised by facts and feelings. The lovestory is then like a puzzle. The title ( AfFair Play ) is a play upon words, so it can both mean a "relation game" and a "honest game." To understand the whole construction of the story, written by Kerbosch and Bastiaan Gieben based on an idea by Dimitri Frenkel Frank, requires some calculating. The whole setup of the movie is calculated. Every movie is, of course, the result of the calculation of the producer, but that is not always that obvious. More or less famous actors, the atmosphere of wealth, fancy locations in Amsterdam, sufficient nudity, handsome cars, international characters and an up-to-date storyline: That is how the director and the producer, clearly aimed at an international distribution, compiled the movie. The movie itself isn't that bad but Kerbosch is not a great director. A lot of shots are obligatory and superficially filmed. On the whole, the movie lacks dynamics, which can be lethal for a thriller. That can also be the fault of a bit of an illogical plot. De Lint has his good moments and Lysette Anthony Lisa plays with insight.

AfFair Play (Dutch)

De Filmkrant's page for Affair Play (Dutch)

Filmarchief's page for AfFair Play (Dutch)

This complete filmography was painstakingly reasearched and put together over time from various sources (some of which are NOT - or WERE not at one point - on the web and available to the public) so PLEASE do not copy this and post it on any website. - Thanks! I have no idea if all the info is 100% accurate, if you find a discrepancy, let me know, please!

Thanks to movieline.de for three more additions to the cast list.

Thanks to Derek's fellow Dutchman, Richard van Bilsen, again for some of the description information and translations of the titles and for finding some of these titles when they were NOT listed in the International Movie Database, which I still have to thank anyway for filling in the blanks on credits here and there.

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