Britney Baby – One More Time

Ludi Boeken has a long record as producer, documentarymaker and journalist, but he is making his début as a featurefilmmaker with a very youthful, slightly untidy and camp comedy. With nobudget nonchalance and corny adolescent humour, a crazy story is told about a desperate film director who will do anything to get enough money to make his next film. The film director, Dude Schmitz, is played by Mark Borchardt, a fan of heavy metal and horror (and one of the hilarious protagonists in American Movie by Chris Smith that was screened in 2000 in Rotterdam). Schmitz gets an opportunity to earn some money when a local TV station commissions him to interview the teenage pop idol Britney Spears. Chance will have it that immediately afterwards in a diner he meets Robert Stephens, a transvestite (and this is based on a true story) who won the worldwide Britney Spears lookalike contest. This striking fact led Boeken to make the film. Schmitz decides to fake an interview with the aid of Stephens. Stephens agrees, if they will later introduce him to the real Britney.In all its zany humour, the film is a clever satire on the way in which the media looks at the famous, while it also parodies the insistence of the independent film maker.