La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994)

Director:

Jan Bucquoy

Writer:

Jan Bucquoy (writer)

Release Date:

28 January 1994 (Belgium)

Genre:

Biography | Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Funny & Sexy!

Plot:

A semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy.

Plot Keywords:

Bartender | Schoolyard | Radical | Nickname | Brussels Belgium

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Jean-Henri Compère	...	Jan Bucquoy
Noe Francq	...	Jan Bucquoy as a child
Isabelle Legros	...	Noella Bucquoy (mother)
Sophie Schneider	...	Therese
Jacques Druaux	...	Jerome Bucquoy (father)
Sacha Jacques	...	Jan Bucquoy as a baby
Boris Bucquoy	...	Jan Bucquoy age 2
Pascale Binnert	...	Ariane Bucquoy
Michel Angely	...	Greengrocer
Michele Shor	...	Aunt Martha
Stefan Lernous	...	Eddy
Georgette Stulens	...	Eddy's mother
Raymond Vandersmissen	...	Eddy's father
Tegan Pick	...	Girl in rollercoaster
Kathleen Joye	...	Christine 'Dirty Knickers'

Also Known As:

Het seksuele leven der Belgen (Belgium: Flemish title)
La vie sexuelle des Belges
The Sex Life of the Belgians (International: English title)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

Belgium

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:12 | UK:18 (cut video release) | UK:18 (theatrical release) | Australia:MA | Finland:K-14 | Portugal:M/16 | Spain:18

Filming Locations:

Blankenberge, Belgium

Company:

Transatlantic Films

Trivia:

It took director Jan Bucquoy three years to raise the funding for the film. As an artist, Bucquoy had set up a Museum of Underpants, most of which he eventually had to sell to raise money for his film. As it was, his cast and crew worked for free until Bucquoy sold his film overseas.

Quotes:

Daisy: You know why I wanted to make love with you?
Jan Bucquoy: I don't know. My charm, my intelligence?
Daisy: No.
Jan Bucquoy: My eyes, my body?
Daisy: No.
Jan Bucquoy: Having savoured the artist, you fell in love with the man?
Daisy: No.
Jan Bucquoy: You realized immediately I was the man of your love?
Daisy: No. You're the first man I've met who doesn't have a TV.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Camping Cosmos (1996)

Soundtrack:

Hymna National Russe

La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978

First movie of the belgian conceptual artist and disrespectful director Jan Bucquoy. This film starts the series of the sexual life of the belgians, composed by 4 full-lenght films that introduce subversion in belgian cinema history, also whit an independent production system. You'll not find any explicit sexual sequence, you'll find the representation of a complex ideological system, the history of a non conventional life, the alternative vision of a country that hide aspirations of general revolution of life. Bucquoy build a conceptual cinema that try to destroy the "representation" of the spectacular cinema in order to leave all the place to the ideas. The word "sexual" hides the words "politics","art", "desire", "communication"... it hides all words to reveal the language free by all social deviation. This first movie show 28 years of the life of a man who try to find the best answer to the only really important philosophical question, as the french writer Camus wrote: is it worth living life or not? From his little village in Flandre to Bruxelles, trough sexual relationships, political activism, literature dreams, you will see the existential journey of Jan Bucquoy (the name of the protagonist) who try to grow in the body and in the intellect.