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‘Memory Lane’ Review: Dementia Takes a Hike in a Rowdy Dutch Road-Trip Comedy
The Netherlands’ Oscar submission feature is an astute but humorous account of an elderly couple on one last trans-European jaunt.
A hit on its home turf earlier this year, de Jonge’s film is a well-crafted crowdpleaser that should cross borders with relative ease … unlike its oft-squabbling protagonists. While Marijn de Wit and the director’s tight script hangs on the plot hook of Maartje’s escalating dementia, its emotional arc rests on Jaap’s gradual return to full marital partnership. Briskly paced, de Jonge’s movie covers a lot of ground both tonal and geographic without ever seeming hurried, conspicuously touristic or heavy-handed in its mix of humor and pathos.
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