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Flanders

Flanders

2006
Drama, Action
1h 31m
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)

Directed by:

Bruno Dumont

Screenwriter:

Bruno Dumont

Starring:

Adélaïde Leroux, Samuel Boidin, Henri Cretel, Jean-Marie Bruveart, David Poulain, Patrice Venant, David Legay, Inge Decaesteker

Genres:

Drama, Action, War

AKA:

Flandres

Country:

France

Languages:

French, Arabic
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Flanders

2006
Drama, Action
1h 31m
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mspraguemsprague
Rated 05 Dec 2024
73
67th
Dull and brutal. Definitely an art film.
Rated 05 Dec 2024
doyler29doyler29
Rated 08 May 2020
90
87th
This is a fairly astonishing film featuring a very slow, deliberate style of action, characters who seem to lack any kind of interior life, and a casual, off-hand anti-realism. The climax of the film involves a betrayal, possibly in retaliation for a perceived harm, which another character claims to have witnessed, even though they could not have done so. This should all be off-putting, but it's not.
Rated 08 May 2020
djrossdjross
Rated 03 Sep 2013
50
44th
Somehow Dumont's preoccupations fail to congeal here, at least for this viewer. It seems to be an intentionally non-realistic fable (this is normal for Dumont) about a young man wrestling with his own inexpressiveness, and finding the means of articulating his emotions by enduring an ordeal of transgression. But as such this fable risks, despite its ambiguity, despite being open to interpretation, and despite the echoes of Georges Bataille, winding up almost as trite as THE DEER HUNTER.
Rated 03 Sep 2013
sirrobbieSirRobbie
Rated 02 Aug 2011
80
81st
One of the best war dramas. Very cruel and powerful.
Rated 02 Aug 2011
jakeaestheteJakeAesthete
Rated 03 Nov 2010
57
54th
More glacial miserablism from Dumont, as could be expected. Finely crafted, and overall probably his strongest work, although the relentless bleakness gets a bit tiring.
Rated 03 Nov 2010
andreasthauAndreasThau
Rated 07 Jul 2010
45
25th
It's interesting, I suppose, and it has a certain style. The slow tempo and lack of music or sound at all, gives it a strong character, whereas the plot, acting and overall themes are dull. We've seen the story about how grueful war over, how it changes people, all that. It becomes a string of unconvincing happenings bordering to being the new ugly clichés of warfare; rape, torture, kids in war. ... never worked for me, it was too simple maybe.
Rated 07 Jul 2010
pigletPiglet
Rated 20 Jan 2010
70
59th
A bit too rough around the edges, simplistic and not entirely in a good way.
Rated 20 Jan 2010
astrakhanastrakhan
Rated 29 Nov 2009
73
28th
A film with potential, but a bit too simplistic in its construction. Some farmers are called up to go to war. They leave their teary-eyed girlfriends at home. The war is horrible and they come home. Relationships have changed. It's all directed with an emotionless distance which could somehow represent the horrors of war. But actually, nothing much changed, and it's all a bit boring.
Rated 29 Nov 2009
markkermodemarkkermode
Rated 09 Jan 2009
1
0th
"Dumont effectively conjures between the dreary routine of everyday life and the normalised horrors of this nameless conflict."
Rated 09 Jan 2009
coinquatroCoinQuatro
Rated 14 Nov 2008
95
98th
Stereotypes become archetypes under Dumont's otherwordly gaze. One of the most interesting and disturbing explorations into gender, sex and war.
Rated 14 Nov 2008
rebornreborn
Rated 18 May 2008
80
89th
FLANDERS YADA FLANDRES..BRUNO DUMONT EN SEVDIGIM YONETMENLERDEN BIRISIDIR.ONUN ICIN BU ODULLU FILMINI HIC TEREDDUT ETMEDEN IZLEMENIZI ONERIRIM..HERHANGI BIR YERDEKI HERHANGI BIR SAVASI DUSUNDUREREK IZLETTIREN VE SAVASI SERT BIR SEKILDE ELESTIREN BIR FILM..
Rated 18 May 2008

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