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Fase (2002)
Almost magnificent, but totally thoughtless.
Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker is a well-known Belgian modern dance choreographer. Her work is inspiring, rhythmic, exciting, incredibly synchronized without being artificial and extremely intense. It is drama at its best. I love to see her dancers perform on stage, and when you see them, you realize the many cinematic possibilities this modern dance possesses. So, what about the movie, Fase, that brings several of those dance-sequences together? It missed a great possibility to be a big artistic challenging movie. It is not even an experiment, which I would prefer to a rigid, unoriginal and tedious attempt of filming the choreography without having a clue what you are doing. The director overlooked the possibilities of regrouping the several episodes and did not even use his creativity to tell us a story. It could have been great, but it isn't! And not even the photography, done by the Belgian DOP Walter Van Den Ende (No Man's Land - 2001), could have changed that. Next time, they should be more demanding before they start shooting.
Misstoestanden (2000)
Terrible !!!
I believe that this movie is so bad that I think that I could do better! Even with no training in film arts and not even a slight clue of how films are made. Bad acting, bad lighting, bad story, sorry no story at all, and awful directing (how did this guy get to be director). The movie tries to make a film within a film, with a famous Belgian cartoon-character. It is actually funny to see that here in Belgium we are actually capable of the worst!!
Vergeten straat (1999)
A film to forget
This is a typical Belgian movie; it is slow, boring, pointless, and it feels old and theatrical. The only reason why I still gave this movie a 3 out of 10 is because it made an effort to make something good out of the novel from Louis Paul Boon. Which is not easy. But the actors are all so fake. There is not even a single scene where you experience even a bit involvement with the story of those people making their street the center of their habitat. The technical aspects of the film are good. The problem lies more in the choices the film made and the directions it took.