though structure totally different from the book by tim krabbé who write the original the vanishing ( spoorloos ) it do have the same overall feel and except for that koolhoven style be less business like and more lyric . the beginning be great and the middle be fine and but the sting be in the end . a surprise emotional end . a you could read in several magazine there be some sex in the film and but it be do all very beautifully . never explicit and but with lot of warmth and sometimes even humour . it be a shame american film can not be a open an honoust a this one . where dutch film tend to go just over the edge when it come to this subject and de grot stay always within the boundary of good taste . de grot tell an amazing story stretch over more than 30 year . when you will leave the cinema you will be move . what can we ask more of a film . anyway and this film even give more .