Les convoyeurs attendent (1999)
Country: FR/BEL/SW
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Benoît Mariage
Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Lanners
Synopsis:
In a Belgian industrial town an overbearing father takes his daughter out on ambulance chasing photo opportunities for his newspaper and bullies his adolescent son into attempting to break the world record for opening and closing a door.
Review:
What could have been depressingly downbeat in fact ends differently, with the main character discovering some degree of humility and the Loachian flavour culminating in a Mike Leigh-style celebration of the millennium which seems to jar with the deliberately old-fashioned look of the film's costumes, settings and imagery.
Country: FR/BEL/SW
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Benoît Mariage
Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Lanners
Synopsis:
In a Belgian industrial town an overbearing father takes his daughter out on ambulance chasing photo opportunities for his newspaper and bullies his adolescent son into attempting to break the world record for opening and closing a door.
Review:
What could have been depressingly downbeat in fact ends differently, with the main character discovering some degree of humility and the Loachian flavour culminating in a Mike Leigh-style celebration of the millennium which seems to jar with the deliberately old-fashioned look of the film's costumes, settings and imagery.
Country: FR/BEL/SW
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Benoît Mariage
Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Lanners
Synopsis:
In a Belgian industrial town an overbearing father takes his daughter out on ambulance chasing photo opportunities for his newspaper and bullies his adolescent son into attempting to break the world record for opening and closing a door.
Review:
What could have been depressingly downbeat in fact ends differently, with the main character discovering some degree of humility and the Loachian flavour culminating in a Mike Leigh-style celebration of the millennium which seems to jar with the deliberately old-fashioned look of the film's costumes, settings and imagery.