Belgica (2016)

Slo naslov: - 

Država: Belgija, Francija

Leto: 2016

Dolžina: 127',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama   

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Felix van Groeningen

Scenarij: Arne Sierens, Felix van Groeningen

Igrajo: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Helene Devos, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Boris Van Severen, Sara De Bosschere, Dominique Van Malder, Sam Louwyck

[ENG]

Belgica is the story of two brothers: charismatic and temperamental Frank - a husband, father, and incurable womaniser - and his ambitious-but-green younger brother Jo, who owns a bar called Belgica. They become business partners and they quickly transform Belgica into the place for great music, beautiful people, and debauched fun - until they learn that running a business on this scale is more complicated than they realised, and their relationship and personal lives suffer. Belgica is an immersive experience of the excess and euphoria of being in the hottest nightclub in town. Set to the eclectic sounds of acclaimed Belgian band Soulwax, the film shows the brothers' intoxicating ascent to success - and the crash and burn that follows. Belgica is about living in the moment and realising that moving forward is not only inevitable but necessary.

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Blending raw emotion with a rowdy musical sensibility, “Belgica” doubles down on the qualities that made director Felix van Groeningen’s “The Broken Circle Breakdown” such an international sensation, but loses the hook, resulting in a louder, rock-drenched melodrama lacking much of the earlier film’s gut-punch potential. Loosely inspired by memories of his dad’s Ghent-based cafe-cum-disco, the Charlatan, van Groeningen’s fifth feature celebrates the anarchic spirit and foolhardy entrepreneurialism it takes to open a successful nightclub, until personal differences, drugs and assorted other playing-with-fire cliches spoil the fun. The film’s anarchic energy makes it a fine choice to kick off Sundance’s World Cinema competition, where more people are likely to embrace the film than during its inevitably limited domestic run. (Peter Debruge, Variety)

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