Director: Jaco van Dormael
Genre: Drama/Magic Realism Film
Nationality: Belgium/France/Germany Year
: 1991
Length: 91 min
Color IMDB
awards: 1991 British Academy Awards for best foreign language film; 1991 Cannes Film Festival Golden Camera Award (best debut); 1991 European Film Festival best new European film, best actor, best photography, most Good screenplay; 1991 French Caesar Award for best co-produced film.
This film is the first feature film of the young Belgian director Jacques van Dommel, who is less productive and highly creative. In the early 1990s, he and Benoit Mariage, who later became famous with "Man Biting Dog", jointly created the new Belgian film movement. After many years of silence, Belgian films made a sensation in the world of cinema. This film is the first Belgian film to gain a worldwide reputation in the 1990s, marking the beginning of the new Belgian film movement. It was selected as the 100 Best Feature Feature Films of the 20th Century by the "Cinema Manual", and it ranks alongside "Paradise Cinemas" and "Killer Leon".
This film tells a story of love and cruelty, revenge and self-salvation. The protagonist Thomas (Totto) was hugged by someone because of a hospital fire when he was just born. Only when he was a boy did he know that another child was hugged by the wrong child. It was his neighbor Alfred, so he always wanted to exchange their lives with Ah, but Ah refused, because Ah's family is very rich. Thomas has always loved the "sister" adopted by his parents-Alice, but they were bothered by Alfred when they deliberately. Alice, who is naturally rebellious, actually took it in order to express his love for Toto. A barrel of gasoline burned Alfred’s garage, and was finally killed in it. Toto hated Alfred from then on. When he grew up, Toto met a beautiful woman who looked the same as Alice. Aveline, so he fell in love again. Unexpectedly, one day Evelyn suddenly left without saying goodbye. It is said that it was also related to Alfred. So Toto's hatred for Alfred deepened again, his greatest wish It was to kill Ah. For this he waited for 35 years. After 35 years, when Toto, with his gray hair and old, returned to his hometown again, Ah had become the leader of a government organization, and many gangs wanted to assassinate him. And looking at Alfred, who was also old, Toto felt deeply that he wasted his whole life for hate, and it is meaningless now. He thought of suicide, in deep regret and self-blame. In the
movie , he did the most heroic thing in his life-pretending to be Alfred to meet the killer's bullet..... The plot of the film is complicated and touching. The most creative thing is that the director uses the young Toto, The three main lines of the young Toto and the old Toto cross and parallel narratives, which are interspersed with the blend of dreams and reality. The photography technique is full of endless imagination and tension. It is a representative of magical realism dramas and inspired to the greatest extent. The birth of a new generation of French magical realism films such as "Angel Emily" and "Black Shop Rhapsody". Jacques van Dommel has very few works and only completed two feature films. After shooting this film, he filmed "The Eighth Day" (The Eighth Day) in France in 1996, which caused a sensation in the entire French film industry. , In which the touching plot and the actor’s true performance once again won him six awards at the Caesars Award and the Cannes Best Picture Award, plus the famous short film collection "Lumiere and Partners" in Cannes in 1995 "Lumiere and Company" (Lumiere and Company) was no longer published after a flash in the pan, but its influence on the world film scene is still very far-reaching.
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