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'Nobody knows' is a very special movie though it is in a basic form (I don't mean poor or standard with the use of 'basic'). It reflects the life of children in an undeserved autonomous situation from a realistic point of view. The camera never interacts with the storyline, it's like if you observe someones life from a neutral position. You enter the story from that neutral, objective but internal observer position and leave it on the same way, only now you know. Actually we always knew, but from time to time we must be remembered of those facts. Beautiful serene movie! (8/10)

Asian film productions spread further and further and so far I can only encourage it.

No doubt about it, Lieven Debrauwer is on of the last Flemish directors (and because he is still 'young', perhaps the last one) that makes movies about conservative (even traditional) Flemish social behavior. That kind of (sometimes narrow-minded) behavior that is typical of elder generations in Flanders. Those generations are fading away (they get old, so eventually pass away), that explains the subject of the movie: a man is fed up with his simple life at home, his wife and his commanding sick sister. He wants to break out of his conservative miserable life and get on to something new. He goes to his sister who has a night club (refers to indecent behavior, so the sister isn't accepted in the family) in the 'city'. There is a cultural change.

I like this kind of movie because it's rather funny to see how the elder (in this movie, who reflect also those in Flanders) still have that sense of standards and values, sometimes that gives ironic situations, but it's especially very honest and true...