Product Details

• Actors: Monic Hendrickx, Anneke Blok, Sylvia Poorta, Jacob Derwig, Halina Reijn
• Directors: Paula van der Oest
• Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• VHS Release Date: July 8, 2003
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000096I8M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #467,294 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film, Zus & Zo follows three sisters as they attempt to sabotage their gay brother’s upcoming wedding so he does not inherit the treasured family resort.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertainingly Quiet, August 10, 2003

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"homeyjsimpson" (Overland Park, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zus and Zo (DVD)

While Zus & Zo is not a movie that will make you laugh out loud or cause a downfall of tears it is a mildly touching and quietly entertaining portrait of life. It is an interesting and at times smirk-inspiring film, but with an all-to-tight ending that leaves too many questions about the future. The acting is fine and the cinematography is unobtrusive, but the emotional connections are few and far between. Once you begin to identify with a character, they are ripped away from you by an evil act, or quick phrase that turns your stomach. A beautiful montage, a great song over the closing credits (Sarah Bettens' "Someone to Say Hi To") are not enough to lift this movie to the heights of top ten lists for the year. This Acadamy Award Nominee, deserves a look, but for most one will be enough. My advise: Rent before you Buy.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not great by any stretch of the imagination, March 12, 2005

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EriKa "E" (Iceland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zus and Zo (DVD)

Back when I was considering a move to Holland or Belgium and was immersing myself in the Dutch language, I got my hands on this film, hoping for the best. Generally, I have enjoyed Dutch cinema, so this was actually quite disappointing. It is not that this was a terrible film; the story was actually fairly interesting. A group of busy, very different sisters conspire to sabotage their brother's upcoming nuptials in order to safeguard a family property (he will inherit it if he marries). Having believed for years that the property was safe (because the brother was widely perceived to be gay) the sisters are shocked and band together, despite their very obvious and frequent differences. Overall not a one of the characters here is very likeable, and though I applaud films that take a candid look at real people with real personalities (likeable or not), this one just rubbed me the wrong way. It's watchable but not great by any means.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Typical European sex comedy, December 26, 2008

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Frieslander (Bogota, D.C., Colombia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Zus and Zo (DVD)

Halina Reijn is a wonderful actress, so I bought the film. However this movie genre is not my favorite. I didn't find the movie particularly funny, nor scandalous. I would watch the movie again though.