The White Castle

The White Castle

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 1, 1973

Runtime

1h 18m

User Score

70%

Original Title

Het Witt Kasteel

Director

Johan van der Keuken

Description

Part of Johan van der Keuken's North/South series, The White Castle focuses on the impact of the West on the underclass: on the concrete realities of their daily life and on the way their existence is isolated and frustrated. Interweaving images of the Spanish tourist mecca of Formentera, a community center in Columbus, Ohio, and factories in the Netherlands, the film vividly illustrates the fragmented, alienated lives that the market economy produces and chillingly portrays what van der Keuken saw as "a conveyor belt [that] runs across the world."