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Flanders
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Adélaïde Leroux,
Samuel Boidin,
Henri Cretel,
Jean-Marie Bruveart,
David Poulain,
Patrice Venant,
David Legay,
and
Inge Decaesteker
André Demester shares his time between his farm and walks with Barbe, his childhood friend. He loves her secretly and painfully, accepting from her the little that she can give him. Along with the others his age, Demester leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn Demester into a warrior. As the seasons go by, Barbe, alone and wasting away, waits for the soldiers to return. Will Demester's boundless love for Barbe save him? (International Film Circuit)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Drama
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Bruno Dumont
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Bruno Dumont
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: May 18, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
French (with English subtitles) |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
France |
Original title "Flandres"; Grand Prize of the Jury, 2006 Cannes Film Festival
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88
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Unspeakable brutality ensues, including a rape, a castration and cold-blooded murder. Dumont never mentions Iraq, but the parallels are clear.
88
TV Guide
Ken Fox
With very little dialogue and lingering shots of the landscape -- always a very important visual trope in Dumont's deep-psyche explorations -- the film is nevertheless tighter and, clocking in at under 90 minutes, relatively brief.
88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Except for the tractors, and the tanks in the later desert battle sequences, Flanders could be taking place centuries ago. Or centuries from now.
80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Flanders, which takes us from the rustic heartland of northern France to the killing fields of an unnamed foreign locale, has such a primitive poetry, we are moved even by its most gruesome moments.
80
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The film arrives at a familiar conclusion -- that war is hell -- but the getting there is made uniquely unsettling by Dumont's relentlessly anti-psychological disposition.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Nonprofessional actors Boidin and Leroux deliver intense performances which shoulder the emotional weight of the film.
80
Empire
David Parkinson
Harrowing and complex, this study in terror is not for the faint of heart.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Underneath the seeming blandness of its presentation -- the sparse dialogue, the affectless characters -- there's a ferocious and caustic view of humanity.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Staff (Not credited)
With razor-sharp precision, Dumont interweaves scenes of battle with the unravelling of a young woman back home, involved with two of the soldiers. But this is not bleakness just for the sake of it. When it arrives, the ray of hope rings perfectly true for being so devoid of artifice.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This film has few tangible pleasures, such as some somber shots of Demester walking far away in a field. Its achievement is theoretical. It wants to depict lives that are without curiosity, introspection and hope.
70
Variety
Deborah Young
A somber, beautifully acted reflection on the barbarity of war and the bestiality of man.
70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Whether you like or loathe Mr. Dumont’s movies, his unsettling vision of humanity stripped of cultural finery feels profoundly truthful.
67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Once again, Dumont cycles through the pet themes of films like "L'Humanité" and "Twentynine Palms," but their repetition is beginning to seem like shtick.
60
Film Threat
Phil Hall
Bruno Dumont’s Flanders is something you don't see everyday: a decidedly non-sentimental love story.
50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Dumont is much more confident when he sticks to the title town and the young woman the men left behind; his habit of alternating close shots with extreme long shots and his singularly unsentimental way of showing sex are as distinctive as ever.
50
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
As a fan, it's upsetting to admit that Dumont's ideas and insights have narrowed with this picture, his relaxed pacing now lethargic, his physically and mentally thick characters too familiar, and his ice-water shocks a bit predictable. It would seem self-parodic if it weren't so damn tragic.
38
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A powerful film of suffering and sacrifice and desperation. But it's vacuous, banal, and, where its mix of sentiment and grisliness is concerned, rather despicable.
30
Village Voice
Nathan Lee
Flanders is, dontcha know, a state of mind, and Dumont is plain out of his.
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Pretentious to the core and lacking any context or credible characterizations.
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