Hop (2002)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Dominique Standaert

Release Date:

16 October 2002 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

All Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy a soccer game together. This simple act sparks...

Plot Keywords:

Foreigner | Expulsion | Belgian | Title Spoken By Character

Awards:

6 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Kalomba Mboyi	...	Justin
Jan Decleir	...	Frans Misonne
Antje de Boeck	...	Gerda Van Hove
Ansou Diedhiou	...	Dieudonné
Alexandra Vandernoot	...	Commissaire Taminiaux
Serge-Henri Valcke	...	Ministre de l'Intérieur
Emile Mpenza	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sjarel Branckaerts
Thierry de Coster
Eric De Staercke
Serge Larivière
Nicolas Majois	...	A student
Peter Van den Begin	...	Simon

Country:

Belgium

Language:

Dutch | French

Color:

Color | Black and White

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Belgium:KT | Sweden:11 | Norway:11

Filming Locations:

Brussels, Belgium

Company:

Signature Films

Trivia:

Originally shot in color and was later digitally graded in a black and white look.

first digital Belgian movie sucks

France had Vidocq, the States had Attack Of The Clones and now Belgium has Hop. Thanks to Sony en Barco, director Standaert got his money to make his debut feature, only if he made it digitally! Well, the image is great, but the story is weak. This movie is about a young African kid who lives in Brussels with his father after they fled from Burundi, where their mother/wife was killed (or just died?). After an incident with their neightbours, they have to flee again. They are living in Belgium illegally and they know what that means. The father gets caught, but the young kid escapes and finds shelter at the home of an anarchist writer (Jan Decleir, from Daens and Character). To cut a long story short: the fathers gets send to Congo (yes, not to Burundi) and the writer and the kid threaten to blow up a famous Belgian landmark. (the kid already tried to blow up the Atomium, but the anarchist could prevent him doing so) The black and white photography is great, but that's the only thing great about this movie. The acting is soso, the story is ridiculous and the director blew the chance of showing the world that Flemish and French are equal in Belgium. They aren't of course, but still, you see two briljant Flemish actors who play Flemish characters and who talk French all the time!