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Aanrijding in Moscou (Moscow, Belgium) (2008)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 40
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Critic Reviews: 17
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Belgian director Christophe Van Romp�y helms the frenetic romantic comedy Aanrijding in Moscou. This farce opens with a seemingly calamitous turn of events when 29-year-old professional truck driver Johnny (Jurgen Delnaet) accidentally slams his rig into a car in the middle of a supermarket parking lot. Lo and behold, the car happens to belong to 41-year-old homemaker Matty (Barbara Sarafian), prompting a nasty fight between the two. In the middle of the argument, however, Johnny becomes

Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.

Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Comedy

Directed By: Christophe Van Romp�y

In Theaters: Dec 19, 2008 Wide

On DVD: Jan 26, 2010

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Critic Reviews for Aanrijding in Moscou (Moscow, Belgium)

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Director Christophe Van Rompaey has a script, of course, but much of what comes across so eloquently in this Flemish comedy of ill-manners is wordless.

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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John Anderson

Washington Post

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The movie just can't decide whether it likes romance or disdains it, whether it wants to be dark or bright.

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

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A romantic drama, interwoven with bright ribbons of humor.

April 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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A splendid little offbeat love story, Moscow, Belgium is a near-quintessential foreign art-house film: smart, sweet, intriguing, well-made and emotionally familiar while still unique.

March 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

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Few films tackle the question of whether a man with a history of domestic violence can learn to love again -- and fewer still do it in a subtly comedic and charming way.

February 27, 2009 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Justin Berton

San Francisco Chronicle

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Perhaps I am being too hard on "Moscow, Belgium," which at worst is inoffensive.

February 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor

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Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

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There aren't many surprises%u2014the characters end up more or less where we expect them to%u2014but it's useless and not at all fun to deny the simple pleasures of this film.

August 8, 2009 Full Review Source: indieWIRE

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Leo Goldsmith

indieWIRE

Barbara Sarafian provides a full-bodied portrait of mature female strength as a mother named Matty in Moscow, Belgium.

June 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun

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Michael Sragow

Baltimore Sun

The film's portrait of a middle-class family and its daily clashes, both major and minor, is spot-on.

May 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington City Paper

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Tricia Olszewski

Washington City Paper

There's nothing special about the story in Moscow, Belgium. But the lead performance? Very special.

April 17, 2009 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

...a terrific vehicle for Sarafian, an actress who proves that middle age can still be intriguing and sexy.

April 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Moscow, Belgium feels not only like a movie from another culture but from another world.

April 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle

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Josh Rosenblatt

Austin Chronicle

As Matty, Sarafian is a marvel as she changes from a gray moth to a girlish butterfly, and Delnaet is delightful as the slightly dangerous Johnny.

March 19, 2009 Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Joe Williams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A European-style chick flick where all the women are wonderful and the men jerks. Unlike the American genre, this is one men can actually sit through and enjoy

March 12, 2009 Full Review Source: tonymedley.com

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Tony Medley

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Not many Belgian films are made, let alone seen in the U.S., so this fresh and quirky feature debut (which world-premiered in 2008 Cannes Fest), about an unusual romantic triangle, is more than welcome.

March 11, 2009 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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Barbara Sarafian's performance in this incongruously scintillating little film is a joy.

March 4, 2009 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net

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Les Wright

culturevulture.net

The romantic triangle plays out somewhat predictably but has welcome wit, well-defined characters and strong acting -- especially by Sarafian, who's intense and strangely sexy in quite the unglamorous role.

February 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Oregonian

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Stan Hall

Oregonian

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In "Moscow, Belgium," Matty(Barbara Sarafian), a 41-year old postal worker, is going through a rough patch lately. Her husband Werner's(Johan Heldenbergh) midlife crisis is manifesting by him shacking up with Gail, a 22-year old former student, leaving her to take care of her three teenaged kids on her own.

December 28, 2008

Walter M.

Super Reviewer

Not often I got to see a good Belgium movie, but this one was new fresh and funny. Matty, a frustrated mother of three who has been abandoned by her husband for a younger girl and who not only wondered what her life was all about but mostly what the future holds in for her now that she had reached 41. Her encounter

January 26, 2010