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Flanders

Original title: Flandres
  • 20062006
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
3.1K
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Flanders (2006)
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • War
Bruno Dumont follows up the controversial Twentynine Palms with this tale of a group of young soldiers who go off to war and experience some life-changing events. Flandres won the Grand Prix... Read allBruno Dumont follows up the controversial Twentynine Palms with this tale of a group of young soldiers who go off to war and experience some life-changing events. Flandres won the Grand Prix Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.Bruno Dumont follows up the controversial Twentynine Palms with this tale of a group of young soldiers who go off to war and experience some life-changing events. Flandres won the Grand Prix Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
3.1K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Bruno Dumont
  • Writer
    • Bruno Dumont
  • Stars
    • Adélaïde Leroux
    • Samuel Boidin
    • Henri Cretel
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  • Director
    • Bruno Dumont
  • Writer
    • Bruno Dumont
  • Stars
    • Adélaïde Leroux
    • Samuel Boidin
    • Henri Cretel
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    • 22User reviews
    • 56Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 3 nominations

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    Bruno Dumont at an event for Flanders (2006)
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    Bruno Dumont at an event for Flanders (2006)
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    Adélaïde Leroux
    Adélaïde Leroux
    • Barbeas Barbe
    Samuel Boidin
    • André Demesteras André Demester
    Henri Cretel
    • Blondelas Blondel
    Jean-Marie Bruweart
    • Bricheas Briche
    David Poulain
    • Leclercqas Leclercq
    Patrice Venant
    • Mordacas Mordac
    David Legay
    • Lieutenantas Lieutenant
    Inge Decaesteker
    • Franceas France
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    User reviews22

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    7/10
    Genuinely challenging, let down by a slight lack of coherence
    It's clear from other reviews that more or less everybody is agreed about the director's rather tricksy film-making and the lack of conventional narrative drive. It's just a question of whether you think these things make for a good film or a bad film.

    For me, the good outweighs the bad: the deliberately non-emotional characterization, slow pace, and powerful use of landscape push viewers out of their comfort zone, and force us to confront some pretty basic realities about life and war.

    It's the parallels - not the contrasts - between home life and the war that are most interesting. On many occasions, the film seems to have a deliberately timeless, ahistorical feel, so that the characters feel tremendously elemental (the word medieval springs to mind too) in their behaviours and concerns. Despite a slight lack of coherence (not necessarily in the plot, more in the overall conception), we do genuinely somehow care for the characters - quite an achievement given the overall tone of the movie.

    The use of Flanders as the setting and title reinforces this sense of historical continuity, of war recurring down through the ages - not for nothing is the region known as "the cockpit of Europe". And by the way, a big chunk of historical Flanders is now in France (the French-plated cars, with "59" indicating the North department which includes most of French Flanders, are a giveaway). French Flanders is by definition not in Belgium, as one reviewer has suggested. However, one of the female characters (Barbe's friend) appears to have a strong Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking) accent - a nice touch, and not entirely implausible in this border region, where a few people still speak Flemish on the French side of the border (visit Hondschoote, and you'll see what I mean).

    This film should make everybody rethink their approach to war, and the impact of sending young men (and women, although not in this film) from more or less every generation off to fight and die (remember that Flanders was scarred by war twice in a lifetime in the 20th century). Not necessarily a particularly easy watch on the face of it, but a powerful and worthwhile one.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 30, 2006 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official sites
      • 3B Productions (France)
      • Tadrart Films (France)
    • Languages
      • French
      • Arabic
    • Also known as
      • Flandern
    • Filming locations
      • Hommelhof Straete, Bailleul, Nord, France
    • Production companies
      • 3B Productions
      • arte Cinéma
      • C.R.R.A.V
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €2,120,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $22,788
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,794
      • May 20, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $402,252
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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