Directed by:
Felix van GroeningenCinematography:
Ruben ImpensComposer:
Björn ErikssonCast:
Johan Heldenbergh, Veerle Baetens, Nell Cattrysse, Geert Van Rampelberg, Nils De Caster, Bert Huysentruyt, Robbie Cleiren, Jan Bijvoet, Sofie Sente (more)VOD (3)
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Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage — but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (Tribeca Film)
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I have to admit one thing. I would never have thought that the Belgians of all people would make a movie about a folk-music nutjob. He’s this long-haired and bearded tramp who lives on a farm in the middle of nowhere with all the animals in the world. It would have never occurred to me that a person like that could even live in Belgium. That kind of character does not really fit with that nation for me and what fits even less is the country music. For a story like that, I could imagine the Czech singers Michal Tučný, Wabi Daněk or maybe somebody from the United States. But Belgians? Having said that, I have to admit that this is a pretty brutal, uncompromising and at the same time well-made drama.
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