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AALTRA
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After a faulty tractor leaves sworn enemies Ben and Gus (co-directors Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern) paralyzed from the waist down, the pair sets out on an epic journey across Europe to claim compensation from the machine's manufacturer. Easy Rider this is not: the grouchy pair bickers tirelessly as they pilot their wheelchairs from thrash gigs to biker bars in search of the happiness that's always eluded them. A quirky comedy so endearingly bizarre that you'll hardly blink when Aki Kaurismaki shows up to deliver the last word. "Lethally precise and improbably hilarious, Aaltra traces a thoroughline from Tati to Kaurismaki to the Farrellys" (Village Voice). In French with English subtitles. Benoit Delepine/Gustave Kervern---Belgium---2004---92 mins.
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ALIAS
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Eva (Hilde De Baerdemaeker) accidentally captures the suicide of a beautiful young girl on her video camera. Soon after the tragedy, the mysterious and charming Dieter (Geert Hunaerts) enters Eva's life, sweeping her off her feet. But, Eva's life changes more than she had anticipated as these two seemingly unrelated events become intertwined. In Dutch with English subtitles. Jan Verheyen---Belgium---2002---98 mins.
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ALTIPLANO
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From the Belgian filmmakers behind Khadak comes this tale filmed against the mountains of Peru. When a Belgian photojournalist (Jasmin Tabatabai) is forced to leave one warzone, she opts for a medical clinic in the Andes, where her doctor husband (Olivier Gourmet) is treating the indigenous population. Bodies mount, and rebellion looms.
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BEN X
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Earning a nomination at the 2007 European Film Awards, the first feature from Belgian Nic Balthazar is an adaptation of own novel about an autistic teen (Greg Timmermans) who retreats into the fantasy world of online role-playing games. Bullied at school and avoided by girls, Ben's online persona offers him a relatively real means of communication with other people. Or at least, other avatars. "The best movie I've seen about teen angst since Donnie Darko" (Brian Miller, The Village Voice). In Dutch with English subtitles. Nic Balthazar---Belgium/Netherlands---2007---93 mins.
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BLACK NIGHT/ NUIT NOIRE
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The first feature from Belgian director Olivier Smolders is this haunting and mystifying psycho-drama, featuring a visual style adopted from the Expressionists and a dreamscape befitting Lynch. Our protagonist, Oscar (Fabrice Rodriguez), spends his days studying and filing away insects in a grotesquely boring museum. And by "day," we really mean night, since the sun only shines for 15 seconds in this world. When Oscar returns home from work, he discovers an ailing (and naked) South African woman in his bed. She has come there to die, and her presence starts Oscar down a slippery slope into his subconscious. "Black Night envelops rather than illuminates the viewer" (Variety). In French with English subtitles. Olivier Smolders---Belgium---2004---90 mins.
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BRIDE FLIGHT
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In this sweeping romance set during WWII, three young women (Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, and Karina Smulders) from Holland have men waiting for them down in New Zealand. Aboard a breakneck flight from their war-torn home to Christchurch, they meet a young man named Frank (Waldemar Torenstra). As we later learn on his deathbed as an old man (played by Rutger Hauer), he touched all of the women's lives in the years following that fateful flight. In Dutch and English with English subtitles.
Ben Sombogaart---Netherlands/Luxembourg---2008---130 mins.
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BULLHEAD
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"Lord only knows how it was able to crack the Oscar Foreign Language five. AMPAS rarely has the stomach--or the cojones--for such descents into darkness" (Time Out).
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CALVAIRE/ THE ORDEAL
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Straight out of Belgium comes this backwoods horror film about obsession and insanity. Marc (Laurent Lucas) is on the road when his van breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Taking refuge in a desolate inn, he finds himself at the mercy of a crazed innkeeper, Bartel (Jackie Berroyer), who shaves Marc's head, dresses him in women's clothing, and renames him "Gloria" after his dead wife. To make things even worse, when the nearby village of inbred maniacs hear of Gloria's return, they attack the inn and chase Marc into a bog. With the artsy camerawork and nods to Deliverance and The Shining, it's not wonder Calvaire was a success at Cannes. In French with English Fabrice Du Welz---Belgium---2004---94 mins.
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CHILDREN OF LOVE
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This touching, semi-documentary film from Danish director Geoffrey Enthoven follows three children from broken homes as they spend the weekend with their respective fathers. "A powerful drama that turns common events into intimate, personal affair" (New York Daily News). In French with English Geoffrey Enthoven---France/Belgium/Holland---2002---87 mins.
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COFFRET CHANTAL AKERMAN: THE 70S
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Unlike Eclipse's NTSC box set, this earlier collection of Chantal Akerman films includes all the director's major works from the 1970s, including Jeanne Dielman. NO ENGLISH subtitles.
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CRAZY LOVE (1987)
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The first film from Dominique Deruddere, director of the Oscar-nominated Everybody's Famous!, is an adaptation of several short stories by the late, iconic author Charles Bukowski, particularly "The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, Calif." Three crucial stages in one man's life are detailed in a chronology filled with bittersweet, bizarre and often shocking scenarios, beginning in his youth as a naive 12-year-old, through his miserable, acne-scarred adolescence, up to his adult life as an alcoholic, drug-addicted dropout with urges of necrophilia. "Stunning. Quite unique...As bizarre a film experience as one could hope to have" (Sunday Times). In Dutch with Dominique Deruddere---Belgium---1987---90 mins.
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DAUGHTER OF KELTOUM
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Abandoned by her North African mother and raised by a Swiss foster family, 19-year-old Rallia (Cylia Malki) decides one day to embark on a harrowing, journey to find the mother she's never met. Traveling to an isolated Berber settlement in the sand-swept wilds of Algeria, Rallia discovers a fiercely tribal, strictly religious society with customs that deviate from her Western upbringing. Reminiscent of Bowles' The Sheltering Sky, Mehdi Charef's film is "a dark and poetic testimony to his roots" (Boston French Film Festival). In Arabic and French with English subtitles. Mehdi Charef---Belgium/France---2001---101 mins.
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DOUBLE TAKE (GRIMONPREZ)
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Using found footage, Cold War newsreels, '60s advertisements, and clips of Alfred Hitchcock and Hitchcock impersonator Ron Burrage, Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez has assembled an inspired false history. Hitchcock and his double are involved in a murder plot in a war being waged between the Yanks and the Soviets, and being fueled by the media.
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EVERYBODY'S FAMOUS!
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A middle-aged factory worker with dreams of becoming a songwriter pins his hopes on his untalented teenage daughter. When she fails to achieve singing stardom, the father turns to more drastic measures--kidnapping a pop star and demanding to be heard. "With its likable blue-collar characters and its unpretentious exuberance, Everybody's Famous is reminiscent of recent British comedies like Brassed Off and The Full Monty" (A.O. Scott, New York Times). Flemish with English subtitles. Dominique Deruddere---Belgium/France/Netherlands---2000---97 mins.
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FAIRY, THE (2011)
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The Belgian filmmakers behind Iceberg and Rumba bring us another irresistible slapstick confection. In the port city of Le Havre, a hotel clerk (Dominique Abel) falls for an enchanting woman (Fiona Gordon) who is either a fairy or a mental patient. After granting him two wishes, though, she disappears. His search for her involves a series of inspired stunts and setpieces that will make your jaw drop. And since most of this is nonverbal, the film will entertain viewers of all ages. “The Fairy may be as close as we'll ever get to a live-action cartoon” (Boston Globe). In French with English subtitles.
Dominique Abel/Fiona Gordon/Bruno Romy---France/Belgium---2011---93 mins.
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HIDDEN LOVE
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In this psychodrama, Isabelle Huppert plays a weary, suicidal woman trying to reconnect with her estranged daughter (Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds).
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HOP
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A child-friendly Belgian comedy about a boy from Burundi (Kolomba Mbuyi) who makes his way into Belgium with his father, but is soon left to fend for himself when dad gets arrested. Aided by a strange, anarchist couple, he sets off on an adventure to find his father before being deported. Shot on digital video with a desaturated palette. In Dutch and French with English subtitles. Dominique Standaert---Belgium---2002---104 mins.
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IN THE ARMS OF MY ENEMY
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A pair of young Cossack brothers have their horses stolen by two horse thieves, leading to a vicious manhunt. Gregoire Colin, Francois-Rene Dupont, Adrien Jolivet and Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet star in this epic period piece (set in 1856 Eastern Europe) exploring the harsh lives led by these four young men amidst poverty and the brutality of Cossack training and the power of love offering a glimmer of hope in their lives. In French with English subtitles. Micha Wald---Belgium---2007---85 mins.
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INNOCENCE (HADZIHALILOVIC)
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Belgian director Lucile Hadzihalilovic dedicated this surreal coming-of-age drama to her husband Gaspar Noe, whose Irreversible is one of the few recent films that rivals it for sheer taboo-busting provocation. The film unfolds at a remote boarding school where prepubescent girls are placed in a hierarchy determined by their age (and revealed by color-coded hair ribbons). Forbidden to leave the premises, the girls' transitional years are steeped in an eerie atmosphere of menace and mystery. "The line between cinematic art and exploitation has rarely seemed finer and nervier" (Manhola Dargis, The New York Times). In French with English subtitles. Lucile Hadzihalilovic---Belgium/France---2004---120 mins.
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JCVD
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You're hesitant. We understand. A meta-actioner about the Muscles from Brussels? The guy hired to do the splits in Cyborg and Bloodsport? Who wore a camouflage jumpsuit and a speedboat to Cannes? Yes, that Jean-Claude Van Damme, who plays a caricature of himself in the self-deprecating, absurdly funny, and surprisingly polished JCVD. When the fading, almost-50-year-old action star learns he is losing a custody battle, he leaves his B-movie shoot and heads home to Belgium. There, he accidentally walks in on a bank heist and hostage situation in progress, and the cops and crowd that gather believe he's to blame. "It's like Dog Day Afternoon with hamsters" (Roget Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). In French with English subtitles.
Mabrouk El Mechri---Belgium/France---2008---97 mins.
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