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  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • NeoClassics Films
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • NeoClassics Films
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Ordinary Matty has nothing but three kids to her name. She works at the post office, her husband has run off to the bedroom of one his students. At forty-three life is pretty hopeless.Then she gets in a fender-bender at the grocery story with twenty-nine year old Johnny. After some harsh words, Johnny finds himself enamored with Matty, w...

Directed By: Christophe Van Rompaey

Written By: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Pat van Beirs

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • NeoClassics Films
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • NeoClassics Films
  • 1 h 42 m

Moscow, Belgium

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Ordinary Matty has nothing but three kids to her name. She works at the post office, her husband has run off to the bedroom of one his students. At forty-three life is pretty hopeless.Then she gets in a fender-bender at the grocery story with twenty-nine year old Johnny. After some harsh words, Johnny finds himself enamored with Matty, w...

Directed By: Christophe Van Rompaey

Written By: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Pat van Beirs

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
68
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
68
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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90
The movie's steady attention to detail lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life. Its eye and ear for the particular and for what is left unsaid in tense conversation is unerring.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
80
Highly enjoyable romantic comedy.
FULL REVIEW
75
There are no big-name stars. Barbara Serafian, who is excellent, has a thin, eclectic resume. She looks a little like Frances McDormand.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
75
A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
67
Feels not only like a movie from another culture but from another world.
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63
I wanted to keep watching. I wanted to leave. In between, I prayed for the piano-accordion soundtrack to silence itself for just one scene (it's like being trapped in a little French restaurant that refuses to close).
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
50
We're not talking the Dardennes brothers here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu.
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Production Company A Private View
Release Date Dec 19, 2008
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.bacfilms.com/site/moscowbelgium/
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Denver International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Mediawave, Hungary
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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