The Way It Is
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A boiled egg. A slurped saucer. Each sequence of this exquisite movie is reduced to its essence as it tells a year in the life of a Dutch bachelor farmer. With no narration and only the tiniest bit of dialogue, The Way It Is reveals a whole life—its small triumphs and great disappointments—in a concentrated half-hour of one sharply revealed image after another. A nearly perfect movie. RR
Director
Elizabeth Salgado
Producer
Frieder Wallis
Original Title
Zo is dat
Release Year
2006
Festival Year
2007
Country
Netherlands
Run Time
30 minutes
Premiere
North American Premiere