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.
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02/05/09
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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
Masterfully blends romance and comedy in a refreshing, endearing, life-affirming and unHollywood way without feeling contrived, corny or convoluted.
01/30/09
Moscow, Belgium is a romantic comedy with a different flavor. Although it follows many of the familiar patterns that characterize movies of this genre, it does enough things differently to allow it to step outside of the norm.
01/23/09
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 CriticNotice 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 CriticMy pick for best romantic comedy of the year--from any country.
01/03/09
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
With 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
A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.
12/19/08
The steady attention to detail in Moscow, Belgium lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life.
12/19/08
Top CriticA feisty romantic comedy about a middle-aged woman who realizes that she has a few options still left whereby she can transform her life.
12/18/08
Belgium has a reputation for dullness (In Bruges) and being invaded by Germans (the Schlieffen Plan), but this delightful film also proves that it’s a place where unlikely love can flourish.
12/17/08
We're not talking the Dardennes brothers here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu.
12/16/08
Van Rompaey paints a warm and often witty picture of workaday life in modern (Flemish-speaking) Belgium.
10/18/08
Packed with plenty of drama, laughs and sentimental charm.
10/18/08
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
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