Review: Like Tears in Rain

Actor Rutger Hauer is a legend.

So handsome and so talented, he could in equal turn be threatening and charming, an action hero or a… hobo (with a shotgun).

He was also an avid ‘filmer of everything’, carrying around a small cine camera he recorded his whole life and all these films were stored, then lost to water damage before his death. It was only after his death that his goddaughter, Sanna Fabery de Jonge, found a box of films in his house in the Netherlands, and here we have her beautiful look into the real life of Hauer the man through this wonderful documentary Like Tears in Rain. 

Through his videos shot in Friesland (his real home away from Hollywood), we see him on his boat, and in the camper van he sold to his life-long friends and Sanna’s parents.

With interviews with his wife, and close friends Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Verhoeven, Robert Rodriguez, and Mickey Rourke, we see another side to this elusive actor.

This is on a par with the recent Documentary about Christopher Reeve, where you get a sense of the real person, and a feeling for their true nature.

This is, quite simply…Beautiful.

Like Tears in Rain premieres on 10th March exclusively on Viaplay available in the UK as an Amazon Prime Video Channels add on.

Review by Tina from a streaming link kindly supplied by Viaplay via Aim Publicity.