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* ArtImitatesArt: Danielle is instantly smitten with Therese's new teacher Ms. Anderson, seeing her in the Botticelli "birth of Venus" pose.
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* ArtImitatesArt: Danielle is instantly smitten with Therese's new teacher Ms. Anderson, seeing her in the Botticelli "birth Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus" Venus|Botticelli}}'' pose.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Crooked Finger, always the cheerful life of the party, eventually hangs himself when he decides that human existence is too painful to be born. Therese, who hardly ever demonstrates human emotions and is indifferent to her own daughter, is hysterical with grief, which enrages Danielle.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Crooked Finger, always the cheerful life of the party, eventually hangs himself when he decides that human existence is too painful to be born.borne. Therese, who hardly ever demonstrates human emotions and is indifferent to her own daughter, is hysterical with grief, which enrages Danielle.
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* {{Hikikomori}}: Crooked Finger never leaves his house. Eventually he reveals his quite nihilistic view of life and his belief in the meaninglessness of existence.
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* ShutIn: Crooked Finger never leaves his house. Eventually he reveals his quite nihilistic view of life and his belief in the meaninglessness of existence.
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* RevengeByProxy: Pitte raping Danielle's daughter is his way to get back at her for messing with him in the barn.
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* RevengeByProxy: Pitte raping Danielle's daughter is his way to get of getting back at her for messing with him in the barn.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: The {{Narrator}} of the story is revealed at the end to be Antonia's great-granddaughter Sarah.
* AssholeVictim: Nobody questions how Pitte found his death because RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Lampshaded by the narrator when the {{Kindhearted Simpleton}}s Loony Lips and Deedee hook up.
-->"Birds of a feather flock together."
-->"Birds of a feather flock together."
* BrotherSisterIncest: Danielle finds Pitte in the barn raping his sister.
* CeilingBanger: The annoyed Protestant does this the first we see the Mad Madonna howling at the moon in her apartment above.
* CeilingBanger: The annoyed Protestant does this the first we see the Mad Madonna howling at the moon in her apartment above.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Therese is [[GoodAngelBadAngel put before the decision]] whether to have her baby or abort it. Naturally she decides pro-birth though we later see her care little for her daughter.
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* {{Narrator}}: Present in the film from the beginning, revealed at the end to be Antonia's great-granddaughter Sarah.
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* SexMontage: Danielle's falling in love with Ms. Anderson is followed by the narrator saying "and then love burst out all over", followed by a montage of all the couples in town humping away.
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* QuirkyTown: Check.
* RevengeByProxy: Pitte raping Danielle's daughter is his way to get back at her for messing with him in the barn.
* SexMontage: Danielle's falling in love with Ms. Anderson is followed by the narrator saying "and then love burst out all over", followed by a montage of all the couples intown the house humping away.
* RevengeByProxy: Pitte raping Danielle's daughter is his way to get back at her for messing with him in the barn.
* SexMontage: Danielle's falling in love with Ms. Anderson is followed by the narrator saying "and then love burst out all over", followed by a montage of all the couples in
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* StrawNihilist: Crooked Finger is this, contrasting with Antonia's more optimistic view of existence. When he's told that Therese is pregnant he says "Have you no pity for this child? Wouldn't you rather save it from the misery of life?"
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* StrawNihilist: Crooked Finger is this, contrasting with Antonia's more optimistic view of existence. When he's told that Therese is pregnant he says "Have you no pity for this child? Wouldn't you rather save it from the misery of life?"life?"
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As the years go by in the village Antonia builds a large extended family, including the Bas family as well as "Crooked Finger", the blacksmith who never leaves his house, and Deedee, the mentally challenged daughter of Antonia's monstrous neighbor Pitte. Danielle, who is a lesbian, sets out to have a child without getting married. Decades pass, with Antonia becoming a benevolent leader of her harmonious little village.
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As the years go by in the village Antonia builds a large extended family, including the Bas family as well as "Crooked Finger", the blacksmith who never leaves his house, and Deedee, the mentally challenged daughter sister of Antonia's monstrous neighbor Pitte. Danielle, who is a lesbian, sets out to have a child without getting married. Decades pass, with Antonia becoming a benevolent leader of her harmonious little village.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Several of the people of the village aren't named. There's Loose Lips the mentally challenged farmhand, the Mad Madonna who howls at the moon, the Protestant who lives beneath her, and Crooked Finger the nihilistic blacksmith.
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* DeathMontage: In keeping with the circle-of-life theme, a montage towards the end shows how several of the older residents of the town croak.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Crooked Finger, always the cheerful life of the party, eventually hangs himself when he decides that human existence is too painful to be born. Therese, who hardly ever demonstrates human emotions and is indifferent to her own daughter, is hysterical with grief, which enrages Danielle.
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* TheEnd: "And as this long chronicle reaches its conclusion, nothing has come to an end."
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* ParentalNeglect: Therese, always buried in her math books, proves pretty much completely indifferent to the existence of her daughter. Luckily the rest of Antonia's family is there to give Sarah love and attention.
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* DeathByChildbirth: Letta's 13th child kills her.
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* ShutIn: Crooked Finger never leaves his house. Eventually he reveals his quite nihilistic view of life and his belief in the meaninglessness of existence.
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* ShutIn: Crooked Finger never leaves his house. Eventually he reveals his quite nihilistic view of life and his belief in the meaninglessness of existence.existence.
* StrawNihilist: Crooked Finger is this, contrasting with Antonia's more optimistic view of existence. When he's told that Therese is pregnant he says "Have you no pity for this child? Wouldn't you rather save it from the misery of life?"
* StrawNihilist: Crooked Finger is this, contrasting with Antonia's more optimistic view of existence. When he's told that Therese is pregnant he says "Have you no pity for this child? Wouldn't you rather save it from the misery of life?"
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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Sarah chucks a man out of her apartment nude after he irritates her.
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* AgeCut: From an 80-ish Antonia in the present day to the Antonia of fifty years ago, a cut facilitated by a truck passing in front of the camera.
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** Later a MatchCut when Therese and Simon are walking in the woods takes them from tweens to 20-year-olds played by a different actor and actress.
** From an 80-ish Antonia in the present day to the Antonia of fifty years ago, a cut facilitated by a truck passing in front of the
** Later a MatchCut when Therese and Simon are walking in the woods takes them from tweens to 20-year-olds played by a different actor and actress.
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* Danielle. For example, she imagines an angel statue hitting the priest with a wing, and imagines her dead grandmother sitting up and singing at her funeral.
* Sarah, at the end. She has a similar vision the day Antonia dies, seeing family members long dead happily visiting a family picket. Note that only two people in Antonia's line have the visions: the artist (Danielle) and the great-granddaughter (Sarah). The two that don't have any visions are Antonia (a farmer) and her granddaughter (Therese).
* Sarah, at the end. She has a similar vision the day Antonia dies, seeing family members long dead happily visiting a family picket. Note that only two people in Antonia's line have the visions: the artist (Danielle) and the great-granddaughter (Sarah). The two that don't have any visions are Antonia (a farmer) and her granddaughter (Therese).
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* Danielle. For example, she imagines an angel statue hitting the priest with a wing, and imagines her dead grandmother sitting up and singing at her funeral.
* Sarah, at the end. She has a similar vision the day Antonia dies, seeing family members long dead happily visiting a family picket. Note that only two people in Antonia's line have the visions: the artist (Danielle) and the great-granddaughter (Sarah). The two that don't have any visions are Antonia (a farmer) and her granddaughter (Therese).
* Danielle. For example, she imagines an angel statue hitting the priest with a wing, and imagines her dead grandmother sitting up and singing at her funeral.
* Sarah, at the end. She has a similar vision the day Antonia dies, seeing family members long dead happily visiting a family picket. Note that only two people in Antonia's line have the visions: the artist (Danielle) and the great-granddaughter (Sarah). The two that don't have any visions are Antonia (a farmer) and her granddaughter (Therese).
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* GhostSong: An imagined one, anyway, as Danielle visualizes her grandmother getting up out of her coffin and singing at her funeral.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Antonia decides to deal with the man who raped her granddaughter her own way — so she heads to the local tavern with a shotgun. When she gets there, she decides instead to put a curse on him instead of killing him (which apparently works). Whether you think he got off easy or not it was definitely a badass grandma moment when she has him on his knees terrified.
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* SexMontage: Danielle's falling in love with Ms. Anderson is followed by the narrator saying "and then love burst out all over", followed by a montage of all the couples in town humping away.
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* ArtImitatesArt: Danielle is instantly smitten with Therese's new teacher Ms. Anderson, seeing her in the Botticelli "birth of Venus" pose.
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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Stated baldly by Crooked Finger when having a chat with little Therese.
--> "The tragedy of those who believe in God is that their faith rules their intellect. In my experience religion often causes death and destruction."
--> "The tragedy of those who believe in God is that their faith rules their intellect. In my experience religion often causes death and destruction."
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* ChildProdigy: Danielle's daughter Therese says "I'm a child prodigy," and she is, having been able to do arithmetic since she was three and being able to figure out squares and square roots of four-digit numbers while she's in grade school.
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* OpenMindedParent: Antonia wins a gold medal. Not only does she agree to Danielle's plan to get pregnant without a husband, she takes her to the city to find a man. And goes with her daughter and said man to the hotel. And ''waits outside'' on the lawn while Danielle has sex twice, and succeeds in conceiving.
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* {{Blackmail}}: After the priest gives an ugly sermon about Jezebel following Danielle getting knocked up, Farmer Bas decides they'll have to blackmail him. They follow him and catch him in his confessional booth having sex with a young woman. The next sermon finds the priest changing his tune and giving the "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" sermon.
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''Antonia's Line'' is a 1995 film from UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands. It was written and directed by Marleen Gorris.
Antonia is a thirty-ish woman who was living abroad, but comes back to her old hometown in The Netherlands in the immediate aftermath of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. She and her daughter Danielle settle down and work the family farm. Farmer Bas, Antonia's widower neighbor, approaches her with an offer of marriage, which Antonia spurns, but they become friends regardless.
As the years go by in the village Antonia builds a large extended family, including the Bas family as well as "Crooked Finger", the blacksmith who never leaves his house, and Deedee, the mentally challenged daughter of Antonia's monstrous neighbor Pitte. Danielle, who is a lesbian, sets out to have a child without getting married. Decades pass, with Antonia becoming a benevolent leader of her harmonious little village.
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* AgeCut: From an 80-ish Antonia in the present day to the Antonia of fifty years ago, a cut facilitated by a truck passing in front of the camera.
* DontFearTheReaper: Antonia wakes up one day, and somehow is aware that it's the day she's going to die. She's perfectly fine with that.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Antonia rejects an offer of marriage from Farmer Bas but they wind up having a regular weekly meeting for sex.
* HowWeGotHere: The film opens with an elderly Antonia on the day of her death before skipping back to her arrival in the town in 1945.
* IntroDump: Antonia showing her daughter around the town and introducing her, and the audience, to the people of the village.
* {{Narrator}}: Present in the film from the beginning, revealed at the end to be Antonia's great-granddaughter Sarah.
* ShutIn: Crooked Finger never leaves his house. Eventually he reveals his quite nihilistic view of life and his belief in the meaninglessness of existence.
Antonia is a thirty-ish woman who was living abroad, but comes back to her old hometown in The Netherlands in the immediate aftermath of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. She and her daughter Danielle settle down and work the family farm. Farmer Bas, Antonia's widower neighbor, approaches her with an offer of marriage, which Antonia spurns, but they become friends regardless.
As the years go by in the village Antonia builds a large extended family, including the Bas family as well as "Crooked Finger", the blacksmith who never leaves his house, and Deedee, the mentally challenged daughter of Antonia's monstrous neighbor Pitte. Danielle, who is a lesbian, sets out to have a child without getting married. Decades pass, with Antonia becoming a benevolent leader of her harmonious little village.
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!!Tropes:
* AgeCut: From an 80-ish Antonia in the present day to the Antonia of fifty years ago, a cut facilitated by a truck passing in front of the camera.
* DontFearTheReaper: Antonia wakes up one day, and somehow is aware that it's the day she's going to die. She's perfectly fine with that.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Antonia rejects an offer of marriage from Farmer Bas but they wind up having a regular weekly meeting for sex.
* HowWeGotHere: The film opens with an elderly Antonia on the day of her death before skipping back to her arrival in the town in 1945.
* IntroDump: Antonia showing her daughter around the town and introducing her, and the audience, to the people of the village.
* {{Narrator}}: Present in the film from the beginning, revealed at the end to be Antonia's great-granddaughter Sarah.
* ShutIn: Crooked Finger never leaves his house. Eventually he reveals his quite nihilistic view of life and his belief in the meaninglessness of existence.
