A thirty-something novelist and impending father looks back on his all-too-formative years in the hapless, alcohol-ridden milieu of his youth in 1980s rural Flanders, Belgium.
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★★★★★
Undeniably, The Misfortunates belongs to social cinema - but not the austere realism of the Dardenne brothers, nor the militant British strain associated with Ken Loach. One could even argue it is "social" mainly because it depicts the daily life of the Strobb...
★★★★★
When you think of Belgium, many things might pop to your mind, but certainly not this harsh comedy-drama about the dysfunction that tops all disfunctions. The Strobbes, working (although almost nobody is working),class family consists of 4 loutish sons, stoic...
★★★★★
I saw this movie yesterday. I was drawn to it because it won the golden Amphora at the "Festival de Quend du film grolandais", an independent movie festival. Seeing the film poster with naked hairy guys cycling, I knew that I would have some fun but how far wi...
★★★★★
This is a damn good film. I think it sort of goes from being a very low-brow comedy into an interesting examination of a very dysfunctional family and how that shapes Gunther's own life as an adult. The thing about the movie is that under all the "ugliness" th...
★★★★★
Known in France as La Merditude des choses, this is a film I've been hunting for ages and finally tracked down on a chilly summer day.
It's the story of a kid grown up, recounting his childhood in a small Belgian village with a dysfunctional family, sometimes...
