janbelgrado

For those who've seen the directors shorts the camera style and editing look familiar. The movie shows some really impressive locations, mostly within Brussels. The story evolves around a several characters who each run into (very) bad luck but at the end of the movie the pieces come together around the same set of 'symbols', similar to the 'frogs' in Magnolia. Some of the editing reminds me of Aronofsky, I suspect the director likes his movies too. There's some really good acting, some of it is not. As usual with small budget movies not all of the actors are of the same level of proficiency. Matthias Schoenaerts is once again very good, just like he was in Any Way the Wind Blows, and so is the big bald guy who lives is this weed-filled room. The photography is marvelous and the reason to see it.