Flanders France
2006, 91min.
Prod.: Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat, Script/Dir.: Bruno Dumont, Dir. of Phot.: Yves Cape, Sound: Philippe Lecoeur, Edit.: Guy Lecorne.
Cast:. Adelaïde Leroux, Samuel Boidin, Henri Cretel, Jean-Marie Bruveart, David Poulain, Patrice Venant, David Legay, Inge Decaesteker.
Flanders. Demester shares his time between his farm and walks with Barbe, his childhood friend. He loves her, secretly and painfully. Along with others his age, Demester leaves to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn Demester into a warrior. As the seasons go by, Barbe, alone and wasting away, waits for the soldiers to return. Will Demester’s intense love for Barbe save him?
Awards
Grand Jury Prize (Cannes IFF, 2006), Golden Anchor (Haifa IFF, 2006).
| Dumont, Bruno Bruno Dumont (born 1958, Bailleul, France)
To date, he has directed four feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His film L'humanité won several awards at the Cannes film festival in 1999, including the Jury Grand Prize. Dumont has a background of Greek and German philosophy, and of corporate video. For fifteen years he shot candy manufacturing films, the building of a highway, a real estate attorney's congress, and other seemingly banal projects. Dumont described how, looking back on this, everything he was filming, no matter how dull, became interesting, "I learnt how to make uninteresting things interesting. The way I work today is completely linked to those ten years of filming nothing." His films often show extreme violence and provocative sexual behavior, and are usually classified as art films. Dumont has himself likened his films to visual arts. He says that some of his favorite filmmakers are Bresson, Pasolini, Rossellini, and Kiarostami.
Filmography
The Life of Jesus (La vie de Jésus, 1997), Humanity (L' humanité, 1999), Twenty nine Palms (2003), Flanders (Flandres, 2006).
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