&ME

&ME
Directed by	Norbert ter Hall
Produced by	Petra Goedings
Written by	Norbert ter Hall, Oscar van den Boogaard
Based on	Fremdkörper by Oscar van den Boogaard
Starring	Mark Waschke; Verónica Echegui; Teun Luijkx; Rossy de Palma
Music by	Jasper Boeke
Cinematography	Richard Oosterhout
Edited by	Isabel Meier
Distributed by	Cineart
Release date	2009;
Country	Belgium; Germany; Spain; Netherlands; France
Language	English; French; German; Spanish; Dutch

&ME is a European romantic comedy film, written and directed by Norbert ter Hall based on a novel by Oscar van den Boogaard. It was produced by Phanta Vision Film International and released in 2009.

Plot

Every month the European Parliament moves from Brussels to its seat in Strasbourg. A week later everything is moved back. The unconventional love story '&ME takes place against this attempt to maintain European idealism and unity.

&ME tells the story of Eduard (Mark Waschke), a gay and disillusioned bureaucrat, who leaves Berlin for Brussels to take up a post within the European Parliament. There he meets the beautiful and idealistic young lawyer Edurne (Verónica Echegui), from Spain, who has finally escaped the clutches of her over-protective mother (Rossy de Palma). Edurne falls madly for Eduard, a handsome, sophisticated man that she can show off to the world. Eduard is happy to go along with the situation, surprised at the level of affection he feels for this young woman. He might even call it love, because love - c'est bizarre.

The attractive Richard (Teun Luijkx) enters and is soon the focus of both Eduard and Edurne's attention. Will Richard turn out to be the glue that holds them together or the wedge that drives them apart? And can they all, in the process, discover that elusive thing called happiness?[1]

Cast

Mark Waschke as Eduard Schiller
Verónica Echegui as Edurne Verona
Teun Luijkx as Richard Merkelbach
Rossy de Palma as Mama Verona
Pamela Knaack as Getrud
Howard Charles as Albert
Rafael Cebrian as Julio

Background

&ME was shot across four countries in eight weeks, is told in five languages and employed an international cast and crew, claiming eight different nationalities.

Setting

&ME takes place in the setting of the European Parliament moving every month from Brussels to Strasbourg in a convoy of enormous trucks.

Novel

The &ME screenplay is based on the novel Fremdkörper by bestseller author Oscar van den Boogaard. His books are sold and translated in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, the UK, the US and Canada.[1]

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References

And me Archived 2012-12-19 at the Wayback Machine andme-thefilm.com, n.d.

External links

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[self-1] And me Archived 2012-12-19 at the Wayback Machine andme-thefilm.com, n.d.