Flandres (2006)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Bruno Dumont

Writer:

Bruno Dumont (writer)

Release Date:

30 August 2006 (France)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot Keywords:

Countryside | Surrealism | Field | Best Friend | Tank

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Adélaïde Leroux	...	Barbe
Samuel Boidin	...	André Demester
Henri Cretel	...	Blondel
Jean-Marie Bruveart	...	Briche
David Poulain	...	Leclercq
Patrice Venant	...	Mordac
David Legay	...	Lieutenant
Inge Decaesteker	...	France

Also Known As:

Flanders (International: English title)

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Sweden:11 | Argentina:16 | France:-12 (with warning) | Singapore:R21 | Japan:R-15 | UK:18 | Netherlands:16 | Philippines:R-18 (MTRCB)

Company:

3B Productions

Movie Connections:

Featured in L'homme des Flandres (2006)

Popularity Contest

It's remarkable that this film is not more popular. It successfully strips away the veneer of "civilisation" (false morality, good manners etc) and shows people as selfish, brutal animals, and depicts modern, asymmetrical warfare as a terrible nightmare where a group of brutish white thugs rape and murder a terrified, technologically backward society (nearly all of whom are defenceless/ poorly armed women and children) before finally being made to suffer a grim but deserved humiliation for their actions. Oh, actually, what am I saying? It'll be a bloody surprise if it ever comes out in North America properly, given the hypocritical, righteous atmosphere of self-delusion that currently permeates this society, a society underpinned by exactly the kind of abuse and violence that this film describes.