La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978

The Sexual Life of the Belgians (original title: La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-78)
The Brussels café Dolle Mol where several of the film's scenes were filmed.
Directed by	Jan Bucquoy
Produced by	Francis De Smet, Transatlantic Films Bruxelles
Written by	Jean-Phlippe Vidon
Starring	Jan Bucquoy, Noël Godin
Music by	Francis De Smet, Marc Aryan, Gene Vincent, Will Tura, Peter Benoit, Les Dominos.
Cinematography	Michel Baudour
Release dates	May 1994 (1994-05) (Brussels)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Belgium
Language	French

La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-78 is a 1994 film satire on Belgian provincialism that proved a major cinematic success in Belgium. It was the first film by now-famed Flemish provocateur and director Jan Bucquoy. It tells an autobiographical tale of a clueless young bumpkin, Jan, trying far from successfully to keep up with times failing equally at being a 1960s free-love youth or political activist and finally sinking into a mundane life.

Reception

The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC).

• "The cinematography is an unusual blend of the surreal and the mundane, infused with a quirky comic style which flitters between self-mockery and farce. Bucquoy's portrait of his own mother provides the film with its most enduring image, the possessive house-proud woman who casually quips when she notices her husband has died, "it isn't time", and repeatedly states when she finds a way to save money: "it's cheaper that way". If the film is an accurate reflection of the truth, Bucquoy must have had one Hell of an upbringing...".^[1])

References

External links

• Transatlantic Films Brussels
• IMDB entry
• comments on the film
• Channel 4
• Moviemachine
• Tribune de Bruxelles
• Allmovie
• Cinémotions