Opening

74% World War Z Jun 21
78% Monsters University Jun 21
61% The Bling Ring Jun 21
58% Maniac Jun 21
100% A Hijacking Jun 21
68% Unfinished Song Jun 21
100% The Attack Jun 21
—— The Haunting of Helena Jun 21

Top Box Office

56% Man of Steel $116.6M
85% This Is the End $20.7M
50% Now You See Me $11.0M
71% Fast & Furious 6 $9.6M
38% The Purge $8.3M
34% The Internship $7.1M
62% Epic $6.3M
87% Star Trek Into Darkness $6.3M
11% After Earth $4.1M
78% Iron Man 3 $3.0M

Coming Soon

—— How To Make Money Selling Drugs Jun 26
—— White House Down Jun 28
—— The Heat Jun 28
56% I'm So Excited! Jun 28

Flanders (Flandres) (2006)

tomatometer

68

Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 57
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 18

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.

78

Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 4

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.

audience

54

liked it
Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 2,274

My Rating

Movie Info

A man's reluctance to express his emotions has unfortunate consequences in both love and war in this drama from filmmaker Bruno Dumont. Barbe (Adelaide Leroux) is a pretty young woman living in a small village in rural France. Barbe loves Andre (Samuel Boidin), a rough-hewn farmhand who doesn't say much and isn't comfortable sharing his feelings for her in any way other than sex. Frustrated by Andre's inability to show affection, Barbe vents her anger by sleeping with other men, and when Andre

Nov 6, 2007

International Film Circuit - Official Site External Icon

Cast

ADVERTISEMENT

All Critics (58) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (18) | DVD (5)

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.

January 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
Top Critic IconTop Critic

This film has few tangible pleasures, such as some somber shots of Demester walking far away in a field. Its achievement is theoretical.

August 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
Top Critic IconTop Critic

The 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.

August 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Anything but comforting. With its depiction of bestial behavior and shocking wartime violence, it's the kind of film that polarizes viewers through the raw power of its imagery.

August 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
Seattle Times
Top Critic IconTop Critic

French filmmaker Bruno Dumont urges his audience to delve beneath the movie's melodramatic, often graphic surface and experience the film sensorially rather than intellectually.

July 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Washington Post
Washington Post
Top Critic IconTop Critic

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.

July 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Boston Globe
Boston Globe
Top Critic IconTop Critic

[A] stilted, affected term-paper treatise on the human condition.

October 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness
Lessons of Darkness

A congealed shrug

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

Self-important film that presumes it has something pertinent to say about the human condition but doesn't.

February 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Enough is left vague that an abstract quality is achieved, and the effect is one of amplification of the themes running throughout the film.

January 7, 2008 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com
MovieMartyr.com

Sexually voyeuristic, low IQ take on the denizens of farm country.

November 14, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

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.

August 4, 2007 Full Review
WBAI Web Radio

It's more provocative than realistic and his naturalism is contained in an arch structure, but his directness is affecting ...

August 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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.

July 15, 2007

Dumont effectively conjures between the dreary routine of everyday life and the normalised horrors of this nameless conflict.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

Flanders is relentlessly bleak, but as it works its way into your bloodstream, the aftertaste is somewhat akin to relief...For those who allow it, Flanders offers the comfort of recognition, and acceptance, of what it means to be human.

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net
culturevulture.net

Flanders is a film you'll either admire or hate.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: This is London
This is London

His camera, whether focused upon acts of horrific brutality or humdrum routine, maintains a steady, unflinching gaze. This, it seems to say, is life and death and nothing else.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Independent

Only watch this if you fancy some serious cinema.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Sun Online
Sun Online

Brutal, in-your-face and frequently gory it's challenging viewing but definitely more for the kind of people who prefer art house cinemas to multiplexes.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]
Daily Mirror [UK]

Audience Reviews for Flanders (Flandres)

An awfully slow French movie with minimalistic dialogue that adds nothing to the war-movie genre. If you really must see it, at least skip the first half-hour!
August 26, 2007
RossCollinsUK

Super Reviewer

Raw treatment of sex and death where little is said and shots last forever in typical french style. It improves when it moves to the theatre of war but it didn't have anything new to say particularly.
January 2, 2008
gor41
Gordon A

Super Reviewer

No quotes approved yet for Flanders (Flandres). Logged in users can submit quotes.

Discussion Forum

There are no discussion threads for Flanders (Flandres) yet.

What's Hot On RT

24 Frames
24 Frames

Pictures from a zombie nation

Blue Jasmine
Blue Jasmine

Woody Allen in San Francisco

<em>The Hobbit</em>
The Hobbit

See the Desolation of Smaug trailer!

Summer Scorecard
Summer Scorecard

Where does This Is the End rank?

Latest News on Flanders (Flandres)

May 17, 2007:
Critical Consensus: Third Time's Not the Charm for "Shrek"
America is going green this week: "Shrek the Third" (featuring the voices of Mike Meyers,...
May 29, 2006:
CANNES: Loach's "Wind," More Euro Films Take End of Festival Prizes
While films by American directors came up empty-handed, three European entries took top honors at...

Foreign Titles

  • Flandres (DE)
  • Flanders (UK)
Help | About | Jobs | Critics Submission | API | Licensing | Mobile