Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
Mike van Diem
15
90 mins
2017
Netherlands, Canada, Italy
Italian, English, Dutch
Ksenia Solo, Gijs Naber, Giancarlo Giannini, Lidia Vitale, Donatella Finocchiaro
Director of Photography: Luc Brefeld
Editor: Jessica de Koning
Produced by: Hans de Weers, Elwin Looije, Corrado Azzollini, Claudio Bucci, Don Carmody, David Cormican
Music: Ari Posner, Jim McGrath
Screenplay by: Peter van Wijk, Mike van Diem
Production Designer: Harry Ammerlaan
Sound Production: Stephen Traub, Lucas Roveda
Director Bio
Mike van Diem
Director Bio
Mark van Diem is an award-winning writer and director from the Netherlands. He is known for Karakter (1997), which won the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film, The Surprise (2015) and Alaska (1989), the first Dutch student film in history to win The Student Academy Award®. He has also collaborated on Hollywood features, including Spy Game (2001).
A frothy, colourful and delightfully eccentric story of a young Canadian-Italian woman’s mission to discover the truth about her origins, Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle is a heart-warming pleasure (more Amélie than realist story). Anna (the impressive Ksenia Solo) journeys from Canada to beautiful Italy, where she encounters an ambitious Dutchman who takes tulips to Puglia, run-ins with the Mafia and even an exploding cave. A freewheeling and charming Euro romp that tackles love, honour, friendship and flowers, and is never less than breezy and engaging.