Belgium Archives | Dog And Wolf

★★★, Belgium, BFI London Film Festival 2024, out now, Reviews, thriller, Venice Biennale 2024October 11, 2024

BFI LFF 2024: Maldoror (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Maldoror directed by Fabrice du Welz is a dark, tense and moral thriller in its examination of the nature of evil based on a horrific real-life Belgian case.

★★★, Belgium, out now, Reviews, Venice Biennale 2024September 11, 2024

Venice 2024: Maldoror (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Maldoror directed by Fabrice du Welz is a dark thriller based on a horrific real-life case.

★★★★, Belgium, first feature, out now, Reviews, sci-fi, TIFF 2024, UkraineSeptember 11, 2024

Toronto 2024: U Are The Universe (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
U Are The Universe is Ukrainian writer and director Pavlo Ostrikov’s gem of an amazing first feature.

★★★, Belgium, festivals, Locarno, Locarno Film Festival 2024, out now, ReviewsAugust 11, 2024

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Mexico 86 (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Mexico 86 by César Diaz is the tension-fraught story of a mother’s love versus her idealism, against the background of the World Cup.

Argentina, Belgium, Cannes Film Festival 2019, First-time filmmakers, France, Guatemala, out now, Reviews, UruguayMay 6, 2024

Our Mothers (2019) (Nuestras Madres)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Our Mothers by Cesar Diaz is a very moving story of the long-lasting aftermath of genocide and civil war on survivors’ lives.

★★★, Belgium, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Black filmmakers, Cannes Film Festival 2023, Democratic Republic of Congo, First-time filmmakers, France, Germany, Netherlands, oscars, out now, Reviews, South AfricaApril 22, 2024

Omen (2023) (Augure)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Omen is multidisciplinary artist Baloji’s magical realist award-winning first feature.

★★★, Alexa Dalby, Belgium, biopic, Cannes Film Festival 2023, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, Reviews, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UKApril 15, 2024

Jeanne du Barry (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Jeanne du Barry, which opened the Cannes Film Festival 2023, is co-written, directed and starred in by Maïwenn, also starring Johnny Depp, in a glossy historical French biopic.

★★★, Belgium, Berlin Film Festival 2024, Netherlands, out now, queer, ReviewsFebruary 18, 2024

Berlinale 2024: Young Hearts (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Heart-warming coming-of-age story Young Hearts is award-winning Anthony Schatteman’s feature debut at the Berlinale.

★★★★, Belgium, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, France, oscars, out now, Picturehouse, ReviewsFebruary 6, 2024

The Taste of Things (2023) (The Pot-au-Feu) (La Passion de Dodin Bouffant)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Taste of Things, directed by Tran Anh Hung is so, so French. It’s beautiful and it’s a 19th-century love story that is also food and beauty obsessed.

★★★, Belgium, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Chris Drew, Drama, France, out now, Peccadillo, ReviewsDecember 14, 2023

The Lost Boys (2023) (Le Paradis)

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
Two teenage boys in a juvenile detention centre develop a passionate bond which is tested when one of them approaches his release in director and co-writer Zeno Graton’s The Lost Boys.

★★, Belgium, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Chris Drew, Female Filmmakers, France, Italy, out now, Picturehouse, Reviews, UKMay 11, 2023

The Eight Mountains (2022) (Le Otto Montagne)

By Chris Drew

★★☆☆☆
Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains, which they adapted from Paolo Cognetti’s novel Le Otto Montagne, tells the story of the friendship of Pietro and Bruno from boys to men in their 30s from the perspective of Pietro.

★★★, Belgium, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, ReviewsApril 26, 2023

Love According to Dalva (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Love According to Dalva, directed by Emmanuelle Nicot, features some extraordinarily intense performances in a paedophilia drama where the victim refuses to accept she is a child who has been abused.