Tag: Cinema of Belgium
Reflection in a Dead Diamond | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Feed My Fetish, Please: Cattet & Forzani Pay Homage to the Eurospy in Dazzling Pastiche
Whether giallo gore or Western shaped, their films don’t lose...
On vous croit (We believe you) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
High Tension: Deville & Dufeys Suffer the Children in Jittery Debut
Tossing us right into the hellfire of an acutely agonizing situation, Charlotte Deville and...
Tennis Anyone?: Film Movement to Serve Leonardo Van Dijl’s Cannes Fave ‘Julie Keeps Quiet’
A new voice in Belgian cinema emerged earlier this year when the Cannes Critics' Week section premiered Julie Keeps Quiet - the directorial debut...
Survival of the Fittest: Anamaria Vartolomei Joins Laura Wandel’s “L’Intérêt d’Adam”
Earlier last month we reported that actresses Léa Drucker and Noémie Merlant were going to topline Laura Wandel’s highly anticipated sophomore feature, L’Intérêt d’Adam....
Seed of Doubt: Noémie Merlant & Léa Drucker Topline Laura Wandel’s “L’intérêt d’Adam”
Among the most anticipated sophomore features we'll already look forward to for the 2025 campaign received a Cannes blurb update in the Le film...
Autumn in Belgium: Dardenne Bros. & Laura Wandel Currently Prepping Next Projects
If the shooting schedule remains intact, we can circle a 2025 Cannes Film Festival playdate for the next Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne film project...
Mambar Pierrette | Review
In Fabric: Mbakam Conveys a Season’s Struggles in Cameroon
“In the ant’s house, the dew is a flood,” might be the proverbial dilemma faced by...
Mister Cab Driver: Guillaume Senez Reteams with Roman Duris for Japan-set “Une Part Manquante”
They teamed together on his 2018 Cannes Critics' Week premiered Our Struggles (Nos Batailles), and now Belgian filmmaker Guillaume Senez it set to work...
Interview: Delphine Girard – Quitter la nuit (Through the Night)
Belgian filmmaker Delphine Girard's debut film takes a plunge into the murky world she created with her 2018 short film Une sœur - an...
2023 Wallonia-Brussels: Woodworth, Lafosse, Guit Bros., Baloji, Mitevska & Laura Wandel Receive Coin
The folks at the Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles folks are throwing some coin support towards 27 fiction feature...
Holly | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Girl with All the Gifts: Torch Tiptoes into Genre with Aloof Drama
Belgian director Fien Troch has built a steadfast filmography on quietly painful...
For the Cause: César Díaz Takes to the Streets for “Mexico 1986” with Bérénice Bejo
Belgian-Guatemalan Camera d'Or winning filmmaker César Díaz is finally moving into production on his sophomore film and we've just learned that Bérénice Bejo will...
The (Ex)perience of Love | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Let’s Talk About Ex Baby: Balboni/Sirot Need A Lot More Lube for Rom Com
Containing enough notable moments that when stacked together would have worked...
Il pleut dans la maison (It’s Raining in the House) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Baby the Rain Must Fall: Life Imitates Art in Serman-Daï’s Narrative Debut
There’s a literalness in It’s Raining In The House (Il pleut dans la maison)...
Tori et Lokita | Review
Suffer the Children: The Dardenne Bros. Trend of Neorealism Continues in Dismal Portrait of Migrant Children
The Dardenne Bros. have built a significant filmography showcasing...
Interview: Lukas Dhont – Close
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (tied with Claire Denis) at this year's Cannes Film Festival, with his sophomore feature, Lukas Dhont has cemented...
Close | Review
The Children’s Hour: Dhont Explores Unspoken Realities in Masterful Drama
The essence of Close, the sophomore film from Belgium’s Lukas Dhont, is akin to the...
When It Melts | 2023 Sundance Film Festival Review
Vengeance on a Wet Afternoon: Baetens Prepares a Fatal Reckoning in Grim Debut
Home is most certainly not where the heart is in When It...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #72. Joachim Lafosse’s Un silence
Un silence
Working at approximately a film per every three years pace, Joachim Lafosse who last gave us the relationship drama The Restless (a Main...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #77. Fien Troch’s Holly
Holly
A fifth feature film backed by an army of producers with Antonino Lombardo and Elisa Heene leading the charge with co-producers such as the...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #86. Delphine Girard’s Le plus vivant possible
Le plus vivant possible
We had Delphine Girard's Le plus vivant possible has a possible 2022 drop, but perhaps there wasn't enough time in post...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #106. Veerle Baetens’ When It Melts
When It Melts
Belgian actress Veerle Baetens (best known for The Broken Circle Breakdown and Mothers' Instinct) moved behind the camera for her directorial debut...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #168. Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s Darling
Darling
The husband-and-wife filmmaker tandem from Brussels known best for exploring their worlds via a giallo lense, moved into animated film territory sometime around 2018...
Riviera Revenge: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani to Shine with “Reflets dans un diamant mort”
Described as a giallo film version of Death in Venice, Belgium filmmaker tandem of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani will be moving into production...
Interview: Lenny & Harpo Guit – Mother Shmuckers
Lenny Guit and Harpo Guit are the masterminds behind Mother Shmuckers (Fils de Plouc), one of the most unhinged comedies to grace Sundance’s Midnight...
Mother Schmuckers | Review
O Brother, Why Art Thou?: The Guit Bros. Get Down & Out in Bizarre Debut
Something is rotten in the state of Belgium, or so...
Playground | Review
Suffer the Children: Wandel Explores Bullying Through a Child’s Perspective in Superb Debut
If everything one needs to know is learned in kindergarten, part of...
Can’t Keep Quiet: Joachim Lafosse Casts Emmanuelle Devos & Benoît Poelvoorde for “Un silence”
Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse is wasting little time between projects and will be teaming with veterans thesps Emmanuelle Devos and Benoît Poelvoorde for his tenth...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #38. Lukas Dhont’s Close
Close
Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont could't have asked for a better career launch than premiering his debut feature in the Un Certain Regard section and...
Inexorable | 2021 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Hand that Mocks the Cradle: Du Welz Finds an Interloper in Vintage Throwback
Long before a lithesome ingenue shows up to ruin a wealthy...
Interview: Fabrice Du Welz – Inexorable
For his seventh feature film Belgian filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz returns to the family domicile to chaos and mayhem. While in his previous film...
Video Interview: Fabrice du Welz – Adoration
A philosopher once said that despair can never be dissolved through escape, but by observing it. There isn't much in terms of reprieve Locarno...
Adoration | Review
Gloria, You’re Always on the Run Now: Du Welz Completes Ardennes Trilogy with Innocence Lost in Dark Fairy Tale
An exercise wherein true and unfaltering...
Skin Walker | Review
The Skin I Don’t Live In: Neuman Prepares a Fractured Affair in Disjointed Debut
All the technical elements of a creepy genre film are evident...
Young Ahmed | Review
Stabbing Backwards: Dardennes “Beet” Misguided Youth into Submission
Up until now, even the most disenfranchised personage in Dardennian cinema had at least a glimmer of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #18. Inexorable – Fabrice Du Welz
Inexorable
Hot on the heels of his Locarno debuted Adoration (read review), the final chapter in his thematic Ardennes trilogy, Belgian auteur Fabrice du Welz...
The Barefoot Emperor | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Barefoot and Stagnant: Woodworth & Brosens Continue Their Belgian Political Satire
While one doesn’t necessarily have to be readily familiar with the 2016 film King...
Our Struggles | 2019 Panorama Film Festival Review
Strife Sentence: Senez Presents Quietly Effective Domestic Drama
Director Guillaume Senez teams with writer Raphaëlle Desplechin (sister of Arnaud and Cesar winner for Mathieu Amalric’s...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #12. Ahmed – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Ahmed
The Dardenne Bros. turn their socially minded lens to religious extremism with their eleventh narrative feature, Ahmed. As usual, the Dardennes are collaborating with...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #13. Adoration – Fabrice du Welz
Adoration
Belgian provocateur Fabrice du Welz returns with Adoration, the third chapter of his celebrated Ardennes trilogy, which follows his 2004 debut Calvaire and 2014’s...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Girl
The first in our Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series is Belgium's Foreign Language Oscar nom in Lukas Dhont's Girl. The Un Certain Regard...
Angel (Un Ange) | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Wheels of Desire: Mortier Breaks Silence with Funereal Portrait of Dead Celebrity
It was a major punchline in Mike Nichols’ version of The Birdcage (1996)...
