Clément, a young philosophy teacher from Paris is sent to Arras for a year. Read More »
Tag Archives: Belgium
The Music Teacher AKA Le maître de musique (1988) Gérard Corbiau, José van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter
Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside Read More »
Suite 16 (1994) Dominique Deruddere, Pete Postlethwaite, Antonie Kamerling, Géraldine Pailhas
Glover is a shadow of the man he was. Once a handsome playboy, he is now confined to the luxurious prison Read More »
The Afterman (1985)
“The Afterman” is about a guy who lived alone in an atomic fallout shelter after the A-Bomb was dropped, so he can’t read, write or speak. Read More »
Daguerrotype (2016) Le secret de la chambre noire
When an assistant to a daguerreotypy photographer falls in love Read More »
The Invader AKA L’envahisseur (2011) Nicolas Provost, Isaka Sawadogo, Stefania Rocca, Serge Riaboukine, Dieudonné Kabongo
The struggles of illegal African immigrant Amadou in search for a better life in Brussels. Read More »
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 »