Feb 18 2004 Belgium, France, Netherlands 2001 78 min Director: Lieven Debrauwer Martha, the senior of four elderly sisters, looks after the child-like Pauline. Pauline loves flowers and to run errands for her sister Paulette who runs a fabric shop in the town. When Martha suddenly dies, neither Paulette nor the youngest sister Cecile, who… Continue reading Pauline & Paulette
Tag: Belgium
La source des femmes
The Source Director: Radu Mihaileanu 13 Mar 2013 Belgium 2011 135 min While this charming film from the director of ‘The Orchestra’ might appear to have parallels with ‘Where do we go now?’, in fact its theme of empowered women runs closer to ‘Made in Dagenham’. The women of the unnamed village have been expected… Continue reading La source des femmes
Le gamin au vélo
The Kid With A Bike 27 Mar 2013 Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Belgium 2011 87 min The Dardenne brothers (Lorna’s Silence, The Child) have created another piece of transcendent and gripping cinema from a grittily mundane story. Eleven-year old Cyril is a troubled boy: abandoned by his father, he searches obsessively for his bicycle,… Continue reading Le gamin au vélo
Belleville Rendezvous
Les Triplettes de Belleville 15 Dec 2004 Director: Sylvain Chomet France, Belgium, Canada, UK 2003 77 min A unique, stylish and exquisitely executed animation from France. Champion, under the care of his grand mother Madame Souza, enters a rigorous training regime in order to one day enter the Tour de France. But Champion is kidnapped… Continue reading Belleville Rendezvous
Io Capitano
6 Nov 2024 Director: Matteo Garrone Italy, Belgium, France 2023 121 min From Matteo Garrone comes this searing tale of two young boys’ migration from Africa to Europe. Io Capitano is an odyssey traversing city, desert and ocean from West Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Two Senegalese teenagers, Seydou and Moussa, leave Dakar for Italy.… Continue reading Io Capitano
Jeune femme
10 Oct 2018 Director: Léonor Serraille France, Belgium 2017 98 min In Léonor Serraille’s livewire character study and sensational feature debut, Laetitia Dosch explodes onto the screen as Paula, a chaotic, impulsive thirty one-year-old Parisienne. Without money and nothing but a cat to her name, Paula finds that doors close in her face now that… Continue reading Jeune femme
I Am Not Your Negro
7 Mar 2018 Director: Raoul Peck USA, France, Belgium, Switzerland 2016 93 min Fifty years after the Civil Rights movement, race remains a defining issue in the United States of America. James Baldwin’s final book, Remember This House, was due to address the lives and assassinations of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin… Continue reading I Am Not Your Negro
The Brand New Testament
15 Feb 2017 Director: Jaco Van Dormael Belgium 2015 113 min God is a cantankerous, vindictive Belgian who runs his operation from an apartment in Brussels. Time has made The Almighty cruel and capricious. Consequently, his ten-year old daughter, Ea, decides to write her own brand new testament with the help of six of her… Continue reading The Brand New Testament
Antonia’s Line
26 Nov 1997 Director: Marleen Gorris Belgium, Netherlands, UK 1995 105 min A drama/comedy about a matriarchy founded by an unusual woman named Antonia, who returning to her village after World War Two takes up residence with her daughter and over the 50 years the film spans, raises an extended family. A warm engaging film… Continue reading Antonia’s Line
Everything Went Fine
15 March 2023 France/Belgium 2021 Director: François Ozon A daughter is forced to reconcile her past with her father when he contacts her with a devastating final wish in François Ozon’s powerful family drama. André (André Dussollier) has never been the easiest of fathers. When he suffers a debilitating stroke and calls on his daughter… Continue reading Everything Went Fine