Moscow, Belgium feels not only like a movie from another culture but from another world.
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04/09/09
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Moscow, Belgium (2008)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:34
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Theatrical Release:Dec 19, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: A fender bender sends a single mother and a much younger man on a collision course toward love in this comic drama. Set in Belgium's blue collar neighborhood of Moscow, the film's heroine, Matty,... [More]
Starring: Barbara Sarafian, Jurgen Delnaet, Johan Heldenbergh, Anemone Valcke
Director: Cristophe Van Rompaey
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Reviews for Moscow, Belgium
Barbara Sarafian provides a full-bodied portrait of mature female strength as a mother named Matty in Moscow, Belgium.
06/12/09
The movie just can't decide whether it likes romance or disdains it, whether it wants to be dark or bright.
04/23/09
Top CriticWith no shortage of wit and ample awareness of the human condition, Moscow, Belgium revolves around a complex female character, wonderfully limned by Barbara Sarafian.
12/22/08
Directed by Christophe Van Rompaey, this Belgian comedy suffers from the fact that its mismatched lovers are so consistently unpleasant.
02/20/09
Notice how deeply the director, Christophe van Rompaey, has drawn us into these lives, how much we finally care, and with what sympathy all the actors enter into the enterprise.
01/08/09
Top CriticThe way Belgian actress Barbara Sarafian plays the opening sequence you're not sure if you're entering a tragedy, or a tragicomedy, or what. The film turns out to be "or what." It's also worth seeing.
01/08/09
Top CriticPerhaps I am being too hard on "Moscow, Belgium," which at worst is inoffensive.
02/24/09
My pick for best romantic comedy of the year--from any country.
01/03/09
Barbara Sarafian's performance in this incongruously scintillating little film is a joy.
03/04/09
Emotions run deep but are never overdone.
02/20/09
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.
03/06/09
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.
03/11/09
Crossover hits from Flanders are rare and Flemish working-class romantic comedies even less so, but van Rompaey may have actually made both when he made Aanrijding in Moscou (Moscow, Belgium).
06/25/08
This polished Belgian diamond of a comedy-drama, about a hot-tempered, foul-mouthed working-class wife and mother jolted out of a nasty rut by an unlikely but problematic younger lover, completely rocks.
12/29/08
Van Rompaey paints a warm and often witty picture of workaday life in modern (Flemish-speaking) Belgium.
10/18/08
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.
08/08/09
Nothing will ever be easy for any of these characters, and that is why we care about them so.
02/20/09
Top CriticA romantic drama, interwoven with bright ribbons of humor.
04/16/09
Director Christophe Van Rompaey takes the oldest story in film, "boy meets girl," and turns it into something fresh and new with sparkling performances by Barbara Sarafian and Jurgen Delnaet.
02/05/09
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