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Mad in Belgium (2022)
Directed by Yves Montmayeur
Overview
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Benoît Poelvoorde | Bouli Lanners | Xavier Seron | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Fabrice Du Welz | Stéphane Aubier | Jan Bucquoy | Noël Godin | Vincent Patar | Olivier Smolders | Vincent Tavier