This film was seen as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2014.
Part of what is so fascinating about Borgman is just how little Alex van Warmerdam is willing to tell us about what is going on. There are points when van Warmerdam’s biting black comedy seems to veer from domestic drama into straight-up fantasy, with very little concession made to explaining the events seen on screen to the audience. Who (or what) is the eponymous drifter? What does he want? Why does he do whatever it is that he seems to be doing?
Van Warmerdam doesn’t feel obligated to provide any explicit answers, and Borgman feels much stronger for it.
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