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La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994)

La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 poster
Directed by
Jan Bucquoy
Genre
comedy film
Country
Belgium
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
18
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a comedy that looks back at the director's own youth in Belgium from the 1940s to the late 1960s. It pokes fun at the country's small-town attitudes and focuses on awkward romantic and sexual experiences.

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What happens

La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950–78 is a 1994 Belgian comedy film and 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. The film is an adaptation of Bucquoy's comic strip La Vie Sexuelle Avec Mes Femmes and has many autobiographical elements, following his youth in the 1940s, 1950s until the late 1960s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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