Schneider vs. Bax

Schneider is about to celebrate his birthday, lovingly arranged by his lovely wife and two small daughters, when work mercilessly calls. As a professional hitman, this means for Schneider: to complete the murderous shift duty punctually until the dinner party. The designated victim, the writer Bax, is supposedly a very easy number. For as bourgeois as things are at Schneider's, Bax, who does coke by conviction, is just as crazy and haphazard. While Schneider prepares the crime with a great love of order, directs false moustaches and perpetrator vehicles, Bax's idyllic summer cottage in the nature reserve is in a state of great disorder: his depressive daughter comes to visit and brings her belligerence with her. Only a phone call reminds him that he still has something to do today: the professional killer Schneider namely, who moves with swift steps into shooting range. Everything is planned, but nothing will work in this black gangster comedy that leaves no genre building block unturned. Alex van Warmerdam's latest directorial stroke is full of laconic and thieving pleasure in absurd intricacies.