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De helaasheid der dingen(2009)

  • Genre:
    • Comedy
    • Drama
  • Director:
    • Felix Van Groeningen

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?

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Written by alphaaline on 29.09.2012

Belgian cinema makes me laugh. Firstly the accent that reminded me "Dikkeneck". Secondly because it is something touching, unexplored. A need to represent reality pronounced. Here, we are a desire to make the cinema as a medium able to translate to the screen a life which we are ashamed. Poetic, th

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