Moscow, Belgium" is as wonderfully contradictory as its title. A realistic romantic comedy with considerable raffish charm and a great spirit, it looks at love's struggles with an offbeat but very human eye... A success at Cannes' Critics' Week last year, "Moscow, Belgium" wouldn't be the film it is without the bravura performance of star Barbara Sarafian, who is so good that the Minsk Film Festival created a special award in her honor: "special recognition for personification of a modern woman." Yes, it's a mouthful, but it pretty much says it all... As those film jurors in Minsk realized, it's Sarafian who brings this film down to earth. With a face that is close to magical, able to believably express everything from joy to jagged rage, she won't allow this film to stray into Fantasyland. Turan's review of "Moscow, Belgium"
Synopsis Moscow, Belgium
Matty is a no-nonsense, working class, 41-year-old mother of three, with a thousand yard stare whose life seems to come apart after a minor collision with a Belgian truck transporting Italian lollipops. The 29-year-old redhead driver Johnny has not only bruised her car but also her sense of self. Not only is Johnny uneducated, balding and a dozen years younger, it also turns out that he has an alcohol problem, a criminal record and a fondness for cheesy lyrics. Meanwhile, her art teacher husband Werner is trying to work out whether he prefers Matty to one of his 22-year-old students, while their three children are trying to figure out where they stand in relation to the opportunities and pratfalls of puberty. As Johnny worms his way into the heart of Matty and the lives of the other members of this dysfunctional, but lovable, family, it becomes clear that everyone has a right to happiness but that this right can be reached only by making choices, which are not always easy.
Cast: Barbara Sarafian, Jurgen Delnaet, Johan Heldenbergh, Anemone Valcke, Sofia Ferri
Director: Christophe Van Rompæy
Genres: Romantic Comedy, Comedy
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