Plot & Summary
Bruno Dumont creates films both brutal and tender, with stark imagery and impassive characters whose faces register little but whose eyes radiate pain, yearning and need. "Flanders" is a return to his strengths. Samuel Boidin plays our point-of-view character, a taciturn farmer who loves the promiscuous Adelaide Leroux. The drama spans four seasons as the local Flanders farmers are called to military service in an unnamed war (it has echoes of Algiers and Iraq and resonates with the American experience in Vietnam) and Leroux awaits their return facing her own trauma. The war scenes could be Dumont's version of "Full Metal Jacket," in which the moral foundation of the citizen soldiers is ground up in the ordeal of killing and being killed in an alien land. It's more provocative than realistic and his naturalism is contained in an arch structure, but his directness is affecting and he refuses to judge his characters, preferring to watch them fumble their way back to grace.
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