Flanders (2006)

Original title

Flandres

Directed by

Bruno Dumont

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 77 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A farmer named Andre is in a relationship with a woman who resents how cold he acts. She sleeps with someone else while he gets sent to fight in a war zone. After the war he returns home changed.

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What happens

Flanders (French: Flandres) is a 2006 French drama film, written and directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of André Demester, a man whose girlfriend betrays him out of frustration with his lack of emotion. He is then sent to fight in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, where he experiences (and participates in) the horrors of war. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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