All Stars

Seven men have played in the same amateur football side since they were boys. By their thirties their lives have pulled apart: one is married, one is chasing a career, one still has no idea. The weekly match is the only thing left holding them together, and the matches themselves slowly turn into a reckoning. Jean van de Velde's 1997 film talks about girlfriends getting pregnant, sexuality kept hidden, working life and the weight of families, and puts all of it inside changing-room banter. It was a large success in the Netherlands and a television series followed. The warm and the merciless sides of male friendship at once.