Belgium with a B as in Brunettes : belgian directors who might tickle your fancy and selected movies
Submitted by cramoukji on Wed, 02/16/2005 - 05:45
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- Chantal Akerman Un Divan à New York (1996), La Captive (2000)
- Lucas Belvaux Pour Rire! (1997), Trilogie: Un Couple épatant/Cavale/Après la vie (2002)
- Rémy Belvaux C'est arrivé près de chez vous (Man bites dog) (1992)
- Alain Berliner Ma vie en rose (1997), Passion of mind (2000)
- Jan Bucquoy La vie sexuelle des Belges (I) (1994), Camping Cosmos (II) (1996), Fermeture de l'Usine Renault à Vilvoorde (III) (1998), La Jouissance des Hystériques (IV) (2000)
- Hugo Claus De Vijanden (1967), Vrijdag (1980), De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (1984)
- Harry Cleven Pourquoi se marier le jour de la fin du monde ? (1999) Trouble (2005)
- Stijn Coninx Hector (1987), Koko Flanel (1990), Daens (1992), When the light comes (1998)
- Gérard Corbiau Le maître de musique (1987), L'année de l'éveil (1990), Farinelli (1994), Le roi danse (2000)
- Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne La Promesse (1996), Rosetta (1999) -Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Le Fils (2002), L'Enfant (2004) -Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
- Lieven Debrouwer Pauline en Paulette (2000), Konfituur (2004)
- André Delvaux L'homme au crâne rasé (1965), Rendez-vous à Bray (1971), Femme entre chien et loup (1979), Benvenuta (1983), L'oeuvre au noir (1988)
- Fabrice Du Welz Le Calvaire (2005)
- Frédéric Fonteyne Une liaison pornographique (1999), La femme de Gilles (2004)
- Marion Hänsel Les noces barbares (1987), Sur la terre comme au ciel (1991), Between the devil and the deep blue sea (1995), The Quarry (1998)
- Harry Kümel Malpertuis (1972), Malpertuis english version (1996), Secrets of love (1986), Eline Vere (1991)
- Anne Lévy-Morelle Le rêve de Gabriel (1997), Sur la pointe du coeur (2001)
- Benoît Mariage Les convoyeurs attendent (1999), L'autre (2003)
- Picha La honte de la jungle (1975), Le chaînon manquant (1980), Big Bang (1987) -these three are non-family cartoons and have been hugely popular in Belgium
- Pierre-Paul Renders Thomas est amoureux (2000)
- Raoul Servais Taxandria (1994)
- Henri Storck one of the first belgian directors, he mostly directed documentaries from 1927 until 1985
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint Monsieur (1989), La Patinoire (1998)
- Jaco Van Dormael Toto Le Héros (1991), Le huitième jour (1996)
- Marc-Henri Wajnberg Just Friends (1993)
Author Comments:
Of course I have not seen all those movies, this list is a mix of what I have been taught/told in College and a few bits of info gathered on the WWWeb as well as personal favorites (Jan Bucquoy, Lieven Debrouwer, Benoît Mariage)... I hope this can be helpful for anyone wondering if good movies have ever come out of Belgium
Oh, I saw La Femme de Gilles, it was fantastic
I trust you on that... I only saw that director's first movie, he's one of the most respected young directors here in Belgium... and that's saying a lot because Belgium, especially the southern french-speaking half has a sad history of not backing/pushing/promoting its cultural talents, neither within its borders nor outside of them.
that's interesting. I haven't seen A Pornographic Affair, but I'll try to see it soon
Just to be helpful, I'll throw in here that the American title for Une liaison pornographique is An Affair of Love.
Just in case you go looking for it. My local Blockbuster has the VHS tape, but not the DVD...
You probably already knew this, but just in case...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Oh, okay. Here in Australia it's been on cable under the title A Pornographic Affair. That's rather strange...
on an uninterestingly stretchily-related note, when Cruel Intentions (that silly but enjoyable teenage modern-day variation on Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses) was released over here (in the exact same french post-dubbed version) it was called "Cruel Intentions" in Belgium and "Sexe Intentions" in France...
My theory would be that what with all the pressure groups and the moral minority and that intellectual cancer known as political correctness, the american market could never properly promote a movie as wholesome and artistic if it has the word "pornographic" in its title... on the other hand, I believe the Aussies don't bother about prudish matters such as those...
Bingo, I suspect.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Koko Flanel is on the list, so this was worth reading!
That was one of my favourites as a child
Still a lot of Belgian movies I need to check, though
Inderdaad / En effet...