Tine Balder

Déambulant dans les rues d’Anvers, un homme, traqué, se cloître dans un mutisme acharné et ne se laisse apprivoiser que par une petite fille aussi perdue que lui. Les réalisateurs, tout trois amateurs, marquèrent le cinéma flamand par cette première œuvre au style expressionniste redevenue moderne et inspiré du film noir. Les notes du saxophoniste et compositeur belge Jack Sels accompagnent cette fresque mélancolique visuellement splendide.

A Lonely Man Falls in Love With an English Woman He Meets on His Way to Work in Hillbrow

This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment.