Rotten
What Marina sees in Borgman is one of the countless implausibilities that make the film more annoying than disturbing.
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
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Borgman
Overview
An enigmatic vagrant cons himself into the home life of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process.
Director and cast
- Alex van Warmerdam Director
- Jan Bijvoet as Camiel Borgman
- Hadewych Minis as Marina
- Jeroen Perceval as Richard
- Alex van Warmerdam as Ludwig
- Tom Dewispelaere as Pascal
- Sara Hjort Ditlevsen as Stine
- Dirkje van der Pijl as Rebecca
- Annet Malherbe as Brenda
- Eva van de Wijdeven as Ilonka
- Pieter-Bas de Waard as Leo
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The black humour and perversity can occasionally startle, but the film takes far too much sadistic delight in punishing these entitled dopes.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
A creepily comical story about an insistent vagrant turned insidious home occupier.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
It's the hypnotic little thriller's disturbing twists that make it such a singular -- and singularly weird -- experience.
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
Though it's too enigmatic for its own good and often feels like it's being made up as it goes, the Dutch import "Borgman" holds interest if only to see what might possibly happen next.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
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