Katja Herbers and Achraf Koutet are Affected by Their Difference in Opinions in The Columnist Exclusive Clip
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Actress Katja Herbers stars in director Ivo van Aart’s crime horror film, ‘The Columnist.’
Actress Katja Herbers is taking matters into her own hands by fighting back against the people who are defaming her in the the upcoming Dutch horror movie, ‘The Columnist.’ The performer’s eponymous protagonist of Femke Boot has become so stressed out and consumed by the hate-filled messages she’s been receiving on social media that she decides to strike back against her attackers in real life.
Review: Newspaper writer goes on killing spree in The Columnist
Dutch satire plays with issues of internet decorum and freedom of speech
Adam Graham
Don t read the comments.
It s a lesson in self-preservation that media types have learned in the internet age when dealing with the angry vitriol that comes from comments sections and social media postings. In the witty Dutch satire The Columnist, a newspaper writer makes the mistake of reading her feedback, and goes on a murder spree to exact revenge on the readers voicing their ugly and dissenting views about her and her columns.
Katja Herbers is terrific as Femke Boot, a newspaper columnist and struggling author whose publisher is asking for chapters on her new book. She becomes obsessed with her online haters and when she discovers one of them is her neighbor he smiles to her face and waves from next door she pushes him off his rooftop and watches him plummet to his death. As a trophy, she takes a finger from him
THE COLUMNIST MOVIE REVIEW
Director: Ivo van Aart
Writer: Daan Windhorst
Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC,
Opens: May 7, 2021
This Dutch treat has a special resonance for me. A film reviewer who is a member of my critics’ group has been known to be a contrarian. He delivers his opinions and does not try to be different from others, but often he just is. As a result he had caused movies on Rotten Tomatoes to be 99% fresh or, in converse, to cause movies that are 99% rotten to be fresh. All this occurred during the years that Rotten Tomatoes allowed people to comment on the reviews, a nice, democratic policy, but young people (mainly) being young people, scores of folks probably in high school resented his “ruining” a picture by depriving it of the rare 100% accolades. They tormented him on the computer with comments that got nastier by the week and went overboard. Some began calling him at his home at all hours. I don’t know how he resolved this dilemma, but Rotten
JOURNO POWER TRIP: ‘Dark Comedy’ Film Portrays Journalist Who Murders Mean Internet Commentors
The Dutch film received rave reviews from critics, but rampant mockery on social media
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A new Dutch “dark comedy” film follows a journalist who hunts down and murders mean internet commentors. Described as a “journo power trip,” it will receive its US release next month.
“The Columnist,” known in its original Dutch as “The Pussy Whore,” follows the story of Westworld’s Katja Herbers as Femke Boot, “a depressed newspaper columnist who is dealing with pressure from her publisher to complete her book and a seemingly endless stream of online harassers.” Instead of ignoring them like any normal person, the film follows Boot after she decides the best course of action is to hunt down and murder the commentors who have been saying mean things about her.
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