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Tag Archives: Belgium
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989) Dominique Deruddere, Joe Mantegna, Ornella Muti, Faye Dunaway
Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Read More »
Afterman 2 (2005) Rob Van Eyck, Lindsay Bervoets, Stephane Dopagne, Frida Farrell
The Year is 2012. Bin Laden is a political refugee in Brussels. Somehow, helped by the criminal underworld Read More »
The Son AKA Le fils (2002) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart
Olivier – meticulous, careful, even-handed – teaches carpentry at a vocational school in Liège. Read More »
Rosetta (1999) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux
The first scene, like almost all others, is a fighting scene. A girl, about 18, is sacked from her factory work because her trial period is over. Read More »
The Diary of Lady M AKA Le journal de Lady M (1992) Alain Tanner, Myriam Mézières, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Félicité Wouassi
She’s a beautiful gifted performer, but her work is not the sort that invites popular acclaim. Read More »
Come Undone AKA Presque rien (2000) Sébastien Lifshitz, Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau, Marie Matheron
Eighteen-year-old Mathieu vacations at the beach with his family when he meets local teen Cédric. Read More »
Low Tide (2012) Roberto Minervini, Daniel Blanchard, Melissa McKinney, Vernon Wilbanks
A 12 year old boy and his single mother live parallel lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. Read More »
Peace Over the Fields AKA Paix sur les champs (1970) Jacques Boigelot, Christian Barbier, Georges Poujouly, Claire Wauthion
Peace in the Fields takes place around 1925. Stanne a wealthy Flemish farmer, is alleged to have murdered his fiancée 20 years before. Read More »
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short AKA De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (1966) André Delvaux, Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck
A schoolteacher (Miereveld or “field of ants”) is entranced by one of his students (Fran). Read More »
Mobius (2013) Eric Rochant, Jean Dujardin, Cécile De France, Tim Roth
In the high stakes world of espionage, one Russian FSB operative will do whatever it takes to crack an international money Read More »
The Five Obstructions AKA De fem benspænd (2003) Jørgen Leth, Claus Nissen, Majken Algren Nielsen, Daniel Hernandez Rodriguez
In this playful, mischievous look at the creative process, Danish auteur Lars von Trier Read More »
Préjudice (2015) Antoine Cuypers, Ariane Labed, Nathalie Baye, Julien Baumgartner
During a family meal, Cedric, 32, learns that his sister is expecting a baby. Read More »
Taxandria (1994) Raoul Servais, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Spiers, Katja Studt
A young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but there quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Read More »
Commando (1962) Frank Wisbar, Stewart Granger, Dorian Gray, Carlos Casaravilla
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. Read More »