“This is a terrific movie. Formally adventurous and technically impeccable but with soul and a point. A rare combination of aspects. The story is told in a very intricate, borderline too-clever manner, toying with literary POV techniques yet somehow never losing track of the basic feelings of the couple and the issues that complicate their relationship. The style is very cognizant of film history, but not a slave to it. Gelderblom’s got his own voice, and it’s rich and assured.”
— MATT ZOLLER SEITZ | RogerEbert.com, New York Magazine

“The best film I saw in 2009, regardless of length, and I say this as someone who votes for the Spirit Awards. It made my girlfriend cry. It’s flat-out stunning.”
— LUCAS MCNELLY | Indies for Indies

“Peet’s light-footed achievement as a writer-director is to cast himself as a kind of seductive force, leading the audience to form conclusions based on what we know and what we think we know about this married couple based on how the images and sound are juxtaposed. It’s a breezy, often visually ambitious (though not ostentatious) and funny film that packs a lot of influences into its brisk 10-minute running time: De Palma, Chabrol, the brothers Coen and Dardennes, even a touch of the airy visual elegance of Vincent Minnelli make themselves known as threads in the fabric that Peet weaves into his own audacious blend.”
— DENNIS COZZALIO | Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule

As Out of Sync shows very well, you never know what the inner monologues are in the heads of otherwise great-looking spouses. Lack of trust, excessive jealousy, lack of time to spend together, fear, tiring work… all this alienates people. Peet Gelderblom, in his great cinematic style with which we practically witness two films – one through sound, the other through picture – presents a way out, albeit after a show of solid distrust to inspire a little positivism. It’s nice. There are many couples with problems and this film may be a successful step forward in understanding the problem and taking steps to solve it.
— YULIAN SPASOV | Kinematograf

“It’s the shapes, the rigid color palette, the horizontal lines battling with the verticals, the close-ups wrestling with the long views (with birds sizzling precisely along a flowered horizon at one point), and it’s the disconnect between the sound and image in the first half of Peet Gelderblom’s too-short OUT OF SYNC–these are the facets that rivet us most. The haziness of a weekday morning is palpable, and the gentle tans of the woman’s cosmos clash with the gunky greys of the man’s. A promising exercise for a promising new director.”
— DEAN TREADWAY | Filmicability

“What a great film! Nicely shot, edited and with superb sound editing. It reminded me a lot of the formalist theories about the use of sound–and especially of the infamous and long-lost Bezhin Lug, directed by Eisenstein in 1937, which was banned and destroyed precisely because of its insistence on not syncing up sound and images.”
— PABLO VILLAÇA | Cinema em Cena

“An experimental Dutch feature about a couple’s supposed break-up that has the dialogue not synced-up properly with what is shown on screen. Smart, reminding one of the sensation of watching one show while overhearing the same show telecast from another room.”
— PITTSBURGH MOVIE EXAMINER