Egg

The Egg is a short 58 minute and sweet seriocomedy from Holland Johan Leysen plays a shy illiterate baker who desires an education Marijke Veugelers portrays the equally shy schoolteacher who endeavors to teach Leysen how to read Love blooms and the results while not always happy are aesthetically more pleasing than in the similarly plotted Jane FondaRobert De Niro starrer Stanley and Iris Most prints of The Egg are in Dutch with English subtitles which is as it should be any attempt to dub these characters with Americanized voices would dissipate the films fragile charm