D'Ardennen (2015)

aka The Ardennes

Slo naslov: -

Angleški naslov: The Ardennes

Država: Belgija

Jezik: Flamščina, francoščina

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 96' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, Krimi

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Robin Pront

Scenarij:Jeroen Perceval, Robin Pront

Igrajo: Kevin Janssens, Jeroen Perceval, Veerle Baetens, Jan Bijvoet, Sam Louwyck

[ENG]

A brutal homejacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth where ever possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.

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Pity the filmgoer who expects the Dardenne brothers when meeting the brothers of “The Ardennes,” a Belgian Christmas story in which sibling betrayal is resolved in increasingly brutal fashion. Closer to the absurdism of Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges”) than to some of first-time feature helmer Robin Pront’s acknowledged models (Tarantino, the Coens), the movie is slow to reveal its nastier elements, appearing for two-thirds of its running time to be merely an absorbing, low-key drama about a troubled family reuniting after one son’s release from prison. Given an abrupt, ill-modulated shift into Grand Guignol territory in its last third, this off-putting debut seems unlikely to be a breakout on the order of Oscar nominee “Bullhead,” with which it shares several key collaborators. [Ben Kenigsberg, Variety]

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