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The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi’s mother. “Close” is a film about friendship and responsibility.Read More »
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Lukas Dhont – Close (2022) (HD)
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Marcel Mariën – L’Imitation du Cinéma AKA The Imitation Of Cinema (1960)
1951-1960Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtBelgiumCultExperimentalMarcel MariënQuote:
This Belgian surrealist work consists of two films, one commenting on the other, concerning a young man with a crucifixion complex. Imagining crosses everywhere, he even cuts his fried potatoes in the shape of a cross. Unable to buy a large cross, he settles for sixty francs worth of small ones, which he carries of in a paper bag. When the cross he finds to crucify himself on proves too small, a kindly priest volunteers to nail his feed to the floor. – J.H. Matthews, Surrealism and Film, 1971Read More » -
Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani – La fin de notre amour AKA The End of Our Love (2003)
2001-2010BelgiumBruno ForzaniExperimentalHélène CattetShort FilmWomen Make HorrorA tortured artist is stuck in an abusive relationship with a woman, whose torments (demonstrated through nightmarish scenes of disembowelment) are slowly driving him mad.Read More »
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Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani – Chambre jaune AKA Yellow Room (2002)
2001-2010BelgiumBruno ForzaniExperimentalHélène CattetShort FilmA leather-clad man watches a woman’s apartment before entering it, cutting the phone cord, leaving a calling card, and confronting her with a razor in hand.Read More »
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne – Tori et Lokita AKA Tori and Lokita (2022)
Drama2021-2030BelgiumJean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc DardenneIn Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.Read More »
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Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani – Orgasm (2012)
2011-2020BelgiumBruno ForzaniExperimentalHélène CattetShort FilmWomen Make HorrorOrgasm forms part of The ABCs of Death, a horror shorts anthology that unites a diverse collection of international directors in their ability to disgust, amuse, and – perhaps most importantly – provoke its audience. Orgasm certainly is provocative as the film documents a sadomasochistic sequence that includes the erotic asphyxiation of a woman that (perhaps) ends in her death.Read More »
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Charles Dekeukeleire – Het kwade oog AKA The Evil Eye (1937)
1931-1940BelgiumCharles DekeukeleireDramaQuote:
Tandis qu’un cinéma populaire, purement commercial, se développe tant à Bruxelles qu’en région flamande, Charles Dekeukeleire se lance dans l’aventure du long métrage en 1937, sur un scénario ambitieux du romancier Herman Teirlinck. Le cinéaste va le réaliser en Flandre avec des acteurs non professionnels, originaires de la campagne, et avec des fonds réunis par Henri d’Ursel auprès de riches mécènes. L’argument imaginé par Teilinck, issu de l’une de ses pièces et basé sur une approche expérimentale du Temps, relève du fantastique rural: un vagabond jette la panique dans une communauté villageoise en déclenchant une série d’événements insolites qui le font craindre comme sorcier, comme esprit malfaisant. Read More » -
Bas Devos – Violet (2014)
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15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends form the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable – how he feels about it.Read More » -
Fabrice du Welz – Calvaire AKA The Ordeal (2004)
2001-2010BelgiumFabrice Du WelzHorrorQuote:
You cannot help but think of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre during a shot in The Ordeal where the camera spins across the leering, giggling faces of a twisted inbred family and their blood-covered, shrieking victim, and you really cannot help but think of it when they cut to an extreme close-up of the victim’s eye darting nervously back and forth. We’ve seen this movie before, where an innocent (played here by Laurent Lucas) has his car break down in the middle of nowhere. He is taken in by an eccentric innkeeper (Jackie Berroyer), and for a while The Ordeal is an intriguingly freakish character study of an older man falling in love with a younger man, believing him to be his dead wife. But their insinuating dialogue eventually gives way to a sadistic (and familiar) torture tale. Read More »