A pair of misfits on the wrong side of the law fall in love in this offbeat independent drama from Belgium. Steve (Titus De Voogdt) thinks he's having a good night when he meets a beautiful woman named Sky (Delfine Bafort) at a nightclub, but he forced to reconsider that opinion moments later when he manages to get busted for selling ecstasy. While in jail, Steve becomes friendly with Jean-Claude (Johan Heldenbergh), a philosophical sort who is confined to a wheelchair. After he's released,
Steve goes to work for Jean-Claude, helping out at his strip club, only to run into Sky again; it seems she makes her living as a stripper and turns tricks when finances demand it, and has a close friendship with Jean-Claude. Steve and Sky soon fall for one another, but Steve becomes curious about the true nature of her relationship with Jean-Claude. Steve + Sky was the first feature film from writer and director Felix Van Groeningen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
With its deliberately washed-out color palette, affectless dialogue and nearly event-free story line, Steve + Sky is a mere slip of a movie, a wan character study of people who add up to little more than a series of studied quirks.
Hugely tedious and mostly incomprehensible, Quentin Tarantino-wannabe Dutch director Felix van Groeningen's Steve + Sky is the kind of foreign movie that gives subtitles a bad name.
Apparently you need to speak dutch to comprehend this movie. I agree that it gets boring at times, but in the end this is still a pretty good movie with a fantastic (Belgian) soundtrack (Beats of Love! Zanna!)
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