Synopsis
A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.
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Cast
- Karina SmuldersAda
- Waldemar TorenstraFrank
- Anna DrijverEsther
- Rutger HauerOld Frank
- Pleuni TouwOld Ada
- Petra LaseurOld Marjorie
- Elise SchaapMarjorie
- Willeke van AmmelrooyOld Esther
- Rawiri ParateneOld Mosie
- Janine HorsburghMrs. Young
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Bride Flight gives a panoramic sweep of lives as they're lived, as there is a lot of beauty in it. - 75
New York Post
The kind of lush, epic romantic weepie that Hollywood used to deliver on a regular basis for packed matinees at Radio City Music Hall. - 70
Variety
A devil-may-care adventurer and three vastly different gals emigrate from the Low Countries to New Zealand in the romantic epic Bride Flight, a glossy European meller that switches between the '50s, the '60s and the present - 70
Village Voice
The flashbacks dominate, playing like wet-inked storyboards: pioneer women forced into patriarch games; a baby born in secrecy and raised in deceit; Jewish legacy lost and found. When the men are all dead, the women speak freely, wrapping up two florid hours with a pickled sentence or two. - 70
The New York Times
Best enjoyed as a lavish period travelogue whose story is dwarfed by its panoramic overview. - 67
Christian Science Monitor
Switching between the 1950s, the '60s, and the present, it's compelling in a middling miniseries kind of way – expansive but not terribly deep. - 60
Time Out
Trauma from WWII haunts each character, but even the historical foregrounding doesn't keep Ben Sombogaart's weepie from being more soapy than serious. - 60
New York Daily News
The plotlines are clichéd and the score overbearing, but uniformly strong turns go a long way towards shaping the lush, nostalgic atmosphere. Don't forget to bring tissues.
