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Flanders ( French: Flandres) is a 2006 French drama film, written and directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of André Demester, a man whose girlfriend betrays him out of frustration with his lack of emotion. He is then sent to fight in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, where he experiences (and participates in) the horrors of war.
- France
- Samuel Boidin, Adélaïde Leroux
Aug 30, 2006 · Flanders: Directed by Bruno Dumont. With Adélaïde Leroux, Samuel Boidin, Henri Cretel, Jean-Marie Bruweart. Bruno Dumont follows up the controversial Twentynine Palms with this tale of a group of young soldiers who go off to war and experience some life-changing events.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Bruno Dumont
- 2006-08-30
Aug 16, 2007 · It was W. G. Sebold who said that animals and men gaze at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. Here is a film that crouches on the screen like a great sullen beast. It is impossible to embrace, impossible to dismiss. I do not know what it is thinking, how it perceives life. But the film is not about animals. It is about men and women, inarticulate to the point of silence ...
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May 18, 2007 · Promiscuous farm girl Barbe (Adélaïde Leroux) entertains numerous lovers, but mostly prefers the company of Demester (Samuel Boidin). Demester seems incapable of commitment, and so Barbe sleeps ...
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- Adélaïde Leroux
- Bruno Dumont
- Drama, War
Flanders. Directed by Bruno Dumont. Drama, Romance, War. Not Rated. 1h 31m. By Stephen Holden. May 18, 2007. The rustics in the French director Bruno Dumont’s fourth film, “Flanders,” are ...
André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn him into a warrior. As the seasons go by, Barbe, alone and wasting away, waits for the soldiers to return.
Jul 6, 2007 · Flandres (Flanders) T en years ago, the French director Bruno Dumont embarked on a film-making career that shocked, disorientated, provoked and divided opinion. La Vie de Jésus, in 1997, was a ...
