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Alberta (2016)
Director: Eddy Terstall
Cast: Daniël Boissevain, Jamie Grant, Eva Duijvestein, Chip Bray
Runtime93 min
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Freek is a 49-year-old advertising executive and media figure. He appears to have it all: he has won many awards in his field, has a great wife Iris and a ten year old adopted son Werner. Iris is 39 and a strong partner, professionally and personally. She's beautiful, smart and a workaholic. Freek is known in the advertising world as a charmer and womanizer. He meets a dazzling young woman, the 24-year-old Alberta, whom he falls for. She persuades him to go to the place she shares a name with; Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. The plan is to escape life in the Netherlands and paint expressionistic landscapes of the Canadian scenery together. Boredom strikes sooner than anticipated and Alberta goes in search of adventure elsewhere, leaving Freek hopeless and alone. Can he handle life on his own?
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Alberta, a 2016 comedy film directed by Eddy Terstall, follows a 49-year-old advertising executive who leaves his life in the Netherlands to go to the Canadian Rockies with a young woman named Alberta. The film has received a generally positive reception, though specific critical and audience ratings are not available.
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Director Eddy Terstall's 2016 comedy 'Alberta' offers a wry, insightful examination of midlife crises, starring a charismatic performance from Daniël Boissevain as a successful but restless advertising executive who falls for a younger woman and seeks escape in the Canadian wilderness.
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Alberta is a province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, the Northwest Territories to its north, and the U.S. state of Montana to its south. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only two landlocked Canadian provinces. The eastern part of the province is occupied by the Great Plains, while the western part borders the Rocky Mountains. The province has a predominantly continental climate, but seasonal temperatures tend to swing rapidly because it is so arid. Those swings are less pronounced in western Alberta because of its occasional Chinook winds. Alberta is the fourth largest province by area, at 661,848 square kilometres, and the fourth most populous, with 4,262,635 residents. Alberta's capital is Edmonton; its largest city is Calgary. The two cities are Alberta's largest census metropolitan areas. More than half of Albertans live in Edmonton or Calgary, which encourages a continuing rivalry between the two cities. English is the province's official language. In 2016, 76.0% of Albertans were anglophone, 1.8% were francophone and 22.2% were allophone.
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