Dominique Deruddere — Director (8)

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Firmin (2007)
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After almost thirty years, Germaine, Firmin's great love, suddenly returns to her hometown. Firmin is overjoyed and determined to win Germaine's heart back, but Germaine rejects his advances. Then Mohammed Boutrous, a young and talented boxer, seeks out Firmin. He wants Firmin to train him. Firmin accepts, hoping to regain his honor and the love of his life...

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Suite 16 (1994)
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other title: 黑色第16号房 / 調教師
After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and the cops closing in on the hotel fast, he wanders into "Suite 16" in a fit of despair. Inside, a handicapped and wheelchair bound Glover is held captive for the evening once discovered by Chris. However, things change the next day when Glover informs Chris that the woman he slept with is now dead; and that he surely will be sought out for her murder. Lonely and bored, Glover offers to shelter Chris for awhile while the cuts and bruises from the previous nights escapades have time to heal.

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The Chapel (2023)
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other title: 琴声诉忆
Twenty-three-year-old virtuoso pianist Jennifer Rogiers has a terrible secret. When competing in the Final of the worldfamous Queen Elisabeth Competition, the memory of a traumatic childhood experience resurfaces.

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Crazy Love (1987)
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other title: 疯狂的爱 / L'amour est un chien de l'enfer …
Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He learns about 'being hot' and 'fucking' and about what you have to do when you're alone and 'feel the itch'. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking... but above all he learns that man is capable of anything - absolutely anything! - to get his fair share of love. Written by mmg

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Flying Home (2014)
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other title: 飞归故乡 / Racing Hearts …
Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his offer. In an attempt to gain the trust of the Sheikh, Colin offers him a deal: if he manages to convince the owner to sell the champion pigeon, the sheikh will agree to do business with Colin's company. But when Colin meets Jos, the grumpy owner of the pigeon, and Isabella, his granddaughter, he realizes that this mission will not be as easy as he had hoped.

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Everybody's Famous (2000)
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other title: 每个人都成名 / Iedereen beroemd! …
一部夸张的音乐题材的电影,和《碧波女贼》差不多,都是以夸张的情节渲染气氛,以动听的音乐贯穿情节,再以一个胜利大团圆的结局在满足通俗娱乐片观众欣赏趣味的同时,也以反讽的形式对社会观念、丑恶现象提出自己的批评。尚安.韦力勤,蓝领工人,四十四岁,与妻子珊桃、十七岁的女儿玛娃,过着沈闷平淡的生活。玛娃热衷参加歌唱比赛,每个周末在父母声援下,不是参加这个就是参加那个比赛,可惜总是空手而回。尚安要帮助女儿成名,很努力为她作曲,但他对音乐一窍不通,只好把自己的旋律哼出来,录在录音带上。他费尽心机,可是在女儿心目中,他只是个头脑简单的无名小卒,对他毫不领情。 尚安因工厂倒闭失了业。他的内心充满挫折感,满怀怒气,要找人报复。有天,他遇上红透半边天的性感女歌手黛比。他打算绑架她……

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The Wedding Party (2005)
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杜明历·狄鲁第 actor: 阿敏·罗德 / 乌韦·奥克森克内希特 …
other title: 血的婚礼 / Die Bluthochzeit …
In rural Westphalia, Franz Berger struggles to keep his inn open. On this day, a bluff, overbearing bully, Hermann Walzer, has booked the dining room for a wedding banquet for his son Mark. There's bad blood between Berger and Walzer, so when the first course, shrimp cocktail, is off, Hermann storms out with the wedding party vowing not to pay. Franz locks the loo door, taking prisoners of the bride and Hermann's wife while he also locks the estate's outer gates, leaving Hermann and the rest outside. Walzer, a pheasant hunter, lays siege; shotguns, rifles, grenades, a shovel, and other weapons leave no one safe. Will it take death to bring these men to their senses?