Loft (2008 film)

Loft
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Erik Van Looy
Written by	Bart De Pauw
Produced by	Hilde De Laere
Starring	Koen De Bouw Filip Peeters Bruno Vanden Broecke Matthias Schoenaerts Koen De Graeve Veerle Baetens Marie Vinck An Miller Tine Reymer Wine Dierickx Maaike Cafmeyer Charlotte Vandermeersch Dirk Roofthooft Sara de Roo Gene Bervoets Jan Decleir
Cinematography	Danny Elsen
Edited by	Philippe Ravoet
Music by	Wolfram de Marco
Production company	Woestijnvis
Distributed by	Independent Films
Release date	22 October 2008 (2008-10-22)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Belgium
Language	Dutch
Budget	€3.2 million

Loft is a 2008 Belgian erotic mystery film directed by Erik Van Looy and written by Bart De Pauw, starring an ensemble cast of Flemish actors, led by Koen De Bouw, Filip Peeters, Bruno Vanden Broecke, Matthias Schoenaerts and Koen De Graeve.

Plot

Five married men share ownership of an upmarket loft in Antwerp, which they use to discreetly meet their respective mistresses. When the body of a murdered woman is found in that loft, the men begin to suspect each other of having committed the gruesome crime, as they are the only ones with keys to the premises. Through flashbacks, which are intertwined by scenes from the present, the story is unravelled.

Cast

• Koen De Bouw as Chris Van Outryve
• Filip Peeters as Vincent Stevens
• Bruno Vanden Broecke as Luc Seynaeve
• Matthias Schoenaerts as Filip Willems
• Koen De Graeve as Marnix Laureys
• Veerle Baetens as Ann Marai
• Marie Vinck as Sarah Delporte
• An Miller as Ellen Van Outryve
• Tine Reymer as Barbara Stevens
• Wine Dierickx as Elsie Seynaeve
• Maaike Cafmeyer as Miriam Laureys
• Charlotte Vandermeersch as Vicky Willems
• Gene Bervoets as Mayor Alex Van Esbroeck
• Jan Decleir as Ludwig Tyberghein

Production

Matthias Schoenaerts and Charlotte Vandermeersch during the shooting of the film at a casino in Ostend

Portions of the film were shot in Ostend in January 2008. The building where the loft is situated is in Antwerp, next to the river Scheldt.

Reception

By 19 February 2009, Loft was the most successful Flemish film ever at the box office with at the time 1,082,480 admissions, passing the previous record holder, Koko Flanel (1990).

Remakes

Main articles: Loft (2010 film) and The Loft (film)

A Dutch remake of the same name was released in 2010, directed by Antoinette Beumer.

In 2011, Van Looy himself began production on a Belgian-American remake. The Loft was completed in 2014 and stars Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet and Schoenaerts reprising his role from the original film. The Loft was released theatrically in the United States on 30 January 2015.

In 2021, Netflix India announced an untitled Hindi remake of Loft directed by the director-duo Abbas Mustan, starring Sharman Joshi, Arjun Rampal and Bobby Deol. The film, later titled Penthouse, was ultimately shelved.

External links

• Loft at IMDb