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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:11
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.6/10
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
Dumont is much more confident when he sticks to the title town and the young woman the men left behind; his habit of alternating close shots with extreme long shots and his singularly unsentimental way of showing sex are as distinctive as ever.
Top CriticThis film has few tangible pleasures, such as some somber shots of Demester walking far away in a field. Its achievement is theoretical.
Top CriticThe harsh and lovely achievement of Bruno Dumont's Flanders is its mixture of the concrete and the abstract. It isn't about a specific war. It's about conflict of every stripe, in any time.
Top CriticFrench filmmaker Bruno Dumont urges his audience to delve beneath the movie's melodramatic, often graphic surface and experience the film sensorially rather than intellectually.
Top CriticThis 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.
Top CriticDon't fight this movie. Just release and get onto its wavelength.
Top CriticThis deeply felt vision of the human condition has more resonance than yet another movie concluding that war is hell.
Top CriticFrom the evidence of Flanders, Mr. Dumont’s career demands further study on my part should the opportunity arise.
Top CriticBruno Dumont. You either love the French filmmaker's abstract and minimalist approach, or you hate it. Count me among the former.
Top CriticWhether you like or loathe Mr. Dumont’s movies, his unsettling vision of humanity stripped of cultural finery feels profoundly truthful. Beneath the facade of civilization, life is a barnyard.
Top Critic[Director Dumont's] got a decent way of moving figures toward the vanishing point of a landscape. Otherwise, ugh.
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.
Top CriticA somber, beautifully acted reflection on the barbarity of war and the bestiality of man, which only enormous compassion can redeem.
Top CriticPretentious 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.
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