The Sex Life of the Belgians
La vie sexuelle des Belges
dir. Jan Bucquoy
Belgium, 1994 - 85
Written, directed and produced by Belgian "enfant terrible" Jan Bucquoy. The fragmented story of the first 28 years (from 1950 to 1978) in the life of Flemish working-class kid, this film would have been better titled "La vie sentimentale de Jan Bucquoy," but as it often happens, the closer a film gets to its author, the more universal a message becomes. "I dreamt of a world without hierarchy where everyone is entitled to happiness," muses Bucquoy at the end of this melancholic, often poetic film.
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