Jaco Van Dormael — Director (10)
Movie
Kiss & Cry (2011)
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Jaco Van Dormael
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Toby Regbo
Finger ballet telling the story of romance on a table-sized stage.
Movie
L'imitateur (1982)
DoubanCourt métrage participant du “ cinéma direct ”, qui se veut “ à mi-chemin entre le documentaire et la fiction ”. “ C’est l’histoire de la courte intrusion de deux handicapés mentaux dans le monde des normaux. Accidentellemnt, Jacques et Jean se perdent dans une ville. Jacques est un mongol de vingt-neuf ans. Il est drôle, il a le sens de l’humour. Imitateur-né, il singe les gens autour de lui, en parlant tout seul. Il philosophe. À deux, ils s’amusent, ils rient, ils découvrent. Mais derrière eux, ils sèment la panique. Les gens s’effraient, ne savent plus comment se comporter, s’enfuient. ” Prix du meilleur court métrage et le Prix du meilleur documentaire au Festival de Bruxelles en 1983.
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The Eighth Day (1996)
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제8요일
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Le Huitième Jour
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Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
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Toto the Hero (1991)
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小英雄托托
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Toto le héros
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80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.