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The Broken Circle Breakdown

Posted on April 20, 2014October 25, 2020 by Village Vidiot

  “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” April 20, 2014 (2012), DVD, in Flemish with subtitles.  Very creative, non-linear story from director Felix von Groeningen. Didier (Johan Heidenbergh) is a Belgian artist and former punk who plays banjo in, of all things, a bluegrass band. He meets Elise (Verlee Baetens) a tattoo artist with her own shop. Their love and relationship is playful and musical as he takes her into his love of things American, especially the pure music of bluegrass. But they face a terrible crisis that challenges everything in their lives when their daughter Maybelle, beautifully played by Nell Cattressey, becomes very sick. Based on a play by Heidenbergh, this film has been aptly described as a romantic melodrama, but it never goes for an easy answer except, unfortunately, at the end of the film. And the music made by the actors is quite wonderful.  Circles, broken and unbroken, abound. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. See this film

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