Despite its Belgian production, Calvaire (2004 – also known as The Ordeal), became an integral film within the cinematic phenomena of New French Extremity that reared its grim and nasty head around the birth of the new millennium. The movement that championed directors such as Gaspar Noé, Pascal Laugier, Xavier […]
Belgium
Dreamland (2019) Canadians can be rather quirky people (Review)
Revenge (2017): a haunting subversion of rape-revenge tropes (Review)
PX26 – A Generation of Napoleons
Surprising things are happening this week as Belgium bans in-game loot boxes under the country’s gambling laws – which may have unforeseen repercussions … In other news, drugs are being hidden in old NES cartridges and PC Building Simulator may become part of the IT curriculum in schools. Tune in […]
The Unknown Girl (2016) Soap Opera Drama framed as documentary-style Belgian Social Realism (Review)
The Unknown Girl is the latest film from the Belgian Dardenne brothers, those purveyors of social realism who achieved critical and commercial acclaim most recently for their 2014 film Two Days, One Night, which starred Marion Cotillard as Sandra, a young woman who, following an absence from work due to […]