Showing posts with label Belgium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belgium. Show all posts

Raw (2016)

Grave
2016 | Belgium / FranceJulia Ducournau★★★★

Julia Ducournau's deceptively smart, unashamedly stylish Raw is a visceral, erotically-charged piece of teen body horror, driven by bravura direction, seductive photography, and the remarkable physical performance of the mesmerising Garance Marillier.

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"Featuring and winning at Cannes, Toronto and London Film Festivals (to name a few), Raw is the film that has shocked and delighted audiences and critics alike. Raw follows Justine, a brilliant and promising student. When she starts at veterinary school, she enters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. During the first week of hazing rituals, desperate to fit in whatever the cost, she strays from her family principles when she eats raw meat for the first time. Justine will soon face the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions as her true self begins to emerge." Universal Pictures

North Sea Texas (2011)

Noordzee, Texas
2011 | Belgium | Bavo Defurne | ★★★

Based on André Sollie's 2005 novel This Will Never End, Bavo Defurne's FIPRESCI Prize-winning North Sea Texas is an unfocused but likeable and generally diverting gay coming-of-age tale, buoyed by fine performances and bright, attractive photography.

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"The feature film by Bavo Defurne. As a lonely kid, Pim brightens up his life dreaming up princesses and beauty queens. As a teenager he dreams of Gino, the rugged boy next door, his motorcycling hero. But Gino is not such a dreamer. Or is he?" Indeed films Belgium