Looking for Eileen (1987) is the second feature of Van den Berg. Like Bastille it is based on a novel by Leon de Winter. The film was very well received in Holland and was exported to several countries abroad. The movie is a romantic drama about a young architect, Philip, who after losing his beloved Marian in a car crash meets Eileen, the spitting image of Marian. The film's tagline is the same as the title song by Tim Hardin: "How can we hang on to a dream".
Rudolf van den Berg's notes: A strong romantic story, audiences still love it to this very day. Even though, at the time, I had the feeling I was a sell-out, because it missed the engagement and underlying existential ideas of my previous work.
