In the gutter, looking at something or other, but definitely not the stars.
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07/06/07
Flanders (2006)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:37
Rotten:17
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Though Bruno Dumont recycles his typical themes and motifs, Flanders is also just as beautifully shot and convincingly acted as the director’s previous movies.
Theatrical Release:May 18, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Flanders. Demester shares his time between his farm and walks with Barbe, his childhood friend. He loves her, secretly and painfully, accepting from her the little that she can give him. Along with... [More]
Starring: Samuel Boidin, Adelaide Leroux, Henri Cretel, Jean-Marie Bruveart
Director: Bruno Dumont
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Reviews for Flanders
Dumont's ideas and insights have narrowed with this picture, his relaxed pacing now lethargic, his physically and mentally thick characters too familiar, and his ice-water shocks a bit predictable. It would seem self-parodic if it weren't so damn tragic.
05/18/07
Among his other deficiencies, Dumont is ... utterly humorless. ... Flanders will leave you nostalgic for the wacky hijinx of films like Persona and The Passion of the Christ.
07/15/07
A dud with zero Milk Dud appeal.
05/17/07
Self-important film that presumes it has something pertinent to say about the human condition but doesn't.
02/03/08
A congealed shrug
08/27/09
An unpleasant exercise about the pointless, dehumanization of war, as well as the pointlessness of sex and perhaps even the pointlessness of existence itself.
06/22/07
Stupid, sexy Flanders!
09/13/06
Pretentious to the core and lacking any context or credible characterizations, Flanders juxtaposes bucolic scenes of life in a farm community, featuring a clutch of dim-witted rustics, with scenes of utter barbarity in an unspecified war.
05/24/06
Top Critic...while it is a difficult film to relate to, one cannot dismiss its director's visual acuity and ability to provoke the mind.
07/01/07
[Director Dumont's] got a decent way of moving figures toward the vanishing point of a landscape. Otherwise, ugh.
05/15/07
[A] stilted, affected term-paper treatise on the human condition.
10/07/09
Why would anyone want to spend time with these characters in the first place?
05/19/07
Dumont's gift for dramatic expression of physical space and sensuously conceived landscape is undeniable. If only he had attached a coherent story to his vividly evoked sense of surroundings.
08/04/07
Sexually voyeuristic, low IQ take on the denizens of farm country.
11/14/07
I wish I could say that I liked Flanders, but it is almost as if Dumont has a checklist of what to include in his movies. For me, this film was more of the same.
05/07/07
This is not a film of youth or wisdom -- it's not even a film of real intelligence. And so we flit between war and relative peace, with no insight or feeling or compelling style.
07/20/07
Top CriticThe opening scenes of hardscrabble farms in Northern France present an utterly bleak existence. It's not surprising, then, that the villages' men don't bat an eye when they are called to fight in a brutal North African conflict.
09/23/06
Only watch this if you fancy some serious cinema.
07/06/07
The dour message it delivers doesn’t so much suggest that war is hell, but that existence certainly is.
07/06/07
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