Tag: Belgian
FLYING HOME
This is the rather preposterous tale of a Middle Eastern Sheik who is being wooed by different Wall Street Hedge Funds who want to get hold of his oil billions to invest. High-flying broker Colin is despatched to charm the reluctant Emirate who is on the verge on signing up with a rival Firm. Colin…
THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN
Didier and Elise may look like a good fit when they fall in love at first sight and start a life together on his rundown farm, but appearances can be deceiving. This lanky bearded bluegrass banjo playing man is a romantic atheist whereas Elise, a beautiful blond hippy tattoo artist who maps her life out…
Mixed Kebab
Bram is in his 20’s and a good-looking Belgian/Turkish gay man who is rather smitten with blond, blue-eyed Kevin who works with his mother at their wee Cafe in Antwerp. Unusually for self-confident Bram who subsides his Waiter’s job by some small time drug dealing on the side, he is however unsure of either Kevin’s…
OUR CHILDREN
The opening scenes of this movie pulls you up sharp. On the screen there is a distraught young woman lying in a hospital bed hooked up to an oxygen machine and desperately pleading to the visitor we cannot see. She simply keeps begging ‘Bury them in Morocco. Tell their father, bury them in Morocco.’ And…
North Sea Texas
The wonderful opening sequence of 6 year old Pim dressing up in his mother’s old beauty pageant sash and tiara and posing in front of the mirror sets the scene for a delightful coming-of-age story that combines all the angst with a great deal of humor and charm. Set in a tiny Belgium coastal…
