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Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking... but above all he learns that man is capable of anything - absolutely anything! - to get his fair share of love. Written by
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Belgian censorship certificate: 12 (DVD release).
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When it exploded onto screens in the mid 1980's, Oscar® nominated director
Dominique Deruddere's film CRAZY LOVE divided critics and audiences as few
films before or since.
Championed by Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, the film was picked
up for US distribution. Stars like Madonna and Sean Penn attended the LA
premiere. But the films shocking subject matter and startling imagery were too rich a combination for audiences at the time. The film vanished from sight,
becoming an instant cult classic - much written about but seldom seen and now reappraised as one of the most underrated films of the 1980's.
Taking his cue from stories by cult American author Charles Bukowski,
Deruddere's film tells the story of a man's life via three nights, spread over 20 years. We see his hero, Harry Voss, first as a romantic young boy of 12, then as an acne ridden teenager, lost in unrequited love, and finally as a drink sodden drop out, for whom no act is too dreadful to contemplate...with terrible and yet deeply moving consequences.
It's a film that, once seen, is never likely to be forgotten. A film with a unique, bitter sweet and poetic mood that manages to be funny and tragic at the same
time. A minor masterpiece.