Tag: Belgian
Third Wedding : but its not all about love
The latest drama from Cannes Winner Belgian Filmmaker David Lambert (Beyond The Walls) is farce-like comedy that plays fast and loose with a Belgian ‘Green Card’ situation. When silver-headed gay bear Martin (Bouli Lanners) buries his younger husband after a fatal car crash he is left with his grief and very large debts. On…
GIRL : Lukas Dhont’s Award Winning Cannes Debut
One of the best received feature film debuts at the Cannes Film Festival was Belgian writer/director Lukas Dhont whose film Girl picked up both Caméra d’Or award, for best first feature film, as well as the Queer Palm. It is the transitioning story of teenage Lala (Victor Polster) who has always dreamed of being a ballerina…
Even Lovers Get The Blues
Belgian writer/director Laurent Micheli’s debut feature film is an audacious look at a tight knit group of 30-something-year-old friends who all seem to have insatiable sex lives which doesn’t seem to make them happy at all. Ana (Marie Denys) is sleeping with Hugo (Gaël Maleux), Dalhia (Adriana Da Fonseca) with Graciano (Gabriel Da Costa), Léo (Séverine Porzio) with Louis…
The Brand New Testament
God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is not a very nice deity. He is mean to his wife (Yolande Moreau) who he bullies into silence, and he will not allow Ea (Pili Groyne) his 1o-year-old daughter go out of their high rise apartment in Brussels. He spends his whole day dressed in his pajamas in his office on his computer taking…
All Yours
Belgian filmmaker David Lambert has followed up his stunning feature film debut the Cannes Award Winning ‘Beyond the Walls’ with another story of a very quirky and odd relationship. It’s the tale of an obese middle-aged gay baker called Henry (Jean-Michel Balthazar) who lives in a small Belgian town and who has fallen in love over the…
