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Directed by: Sylvain Chomet, 2003 A France-Canada-Belgium coproduction, an astonishing animated movie. In fact, there are only a few spoken sentences in the entire film; most of the soundtrack is a mix of squeaks, barks, and jazzy music. A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets. DVD F Tri Directed by: Benoît Deléphine and Gustave Kervern, 2006 Mr. Vives is not fond of the lazy farmer's hand who keeps blocking the road with his large harvester, so he gets back at him, and the farmer's hand gets back at Mr. Vives, and round and round it goes. Until one day, when this causes Mr. Vives to lose his job and come back early to discover his wife in bed with another man. Furious, he drives up to the farm hand in the middle of a field and starts a fist fight which ends in the harvester. They wake up together at the hospital, both with useless legs. It seems they're doomed to stay together from now on. DVD F Aal Directed by: Lieven Debrauwer, 2001 Pauline is a 'little girl of 66 years old'. She is mentally retarded and been cared after by her sister Martha. When Martha dies, her two younger sisters, Paulette and Cecile have to make a decision on the best place for Pauline to be looked after. Neither of them is ready to take care of her. Paulette has a shop to look after and Cecile has her Albert. But according to Martha's last will, her fortune will only be divided in three equal parts if one of the sisters looks after Pauline. If they decide to take her to an institution, Pauline will be the only heir. DVD F Pau Everybody's Famous! (ledereen beroemd ) Written and directed by: Dominique Deruddere, 2000 Jean is a family man and factory worker who dreams of becoming a songwriter. Pinning his hopes on his teenage daughter, he takes her to singing contests in which the awkward and overweight girl struggles to belt out a tune. When Jean is suddenly fired because of cut backs, he is ashamed and even more desperate to have his daughter succeed. In a chance meeting Jean kidnaps the most famous pop star in the country and holds her hostage demanding to be heard by the music industry. Catching the attention of the media and the eyes of the nation, Jean and his daughter realize that the show must go on until everyone is famous. DVD F Eve My Life in Pink (Ma vie en rose) Directed by: Alain Berliner, 1999 Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl, talks of marrying his neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. His actions lead to problems for him and his family. DVD F Ma Directed by: Mike Van Diem, 1998 The 1997 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is an Oedipal struggle both primal and epic with a Dickensian sweep and a dark Kafkaesque center. The film starts with a heated argument between two men, and when the elder is found dead with a knife in his chest the younger man is arrested and revealed to be his son. DVD F Cha AWARD Written and directed: Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardene, 2006 Bruno and Sonia are boy friend and girl friend, playful, immature. She's still in her teens; they chase each other, share cigarettes, spray sodas and wrestle. The thing is, they also have a new baby. Just out of hospital, Sonia seeks out Bruno to bring him his son. Bruno's indifferent. In the grimy Belgian city of Seraing, he's a petty thief with no interest in work, no plan, spending money as fast as he can fence cameras and jewelry. He sells the baby. Sonia's reaction and Bruno's surprise at her response inform his subsequent actions. The camera follows and observes him: has he a nascent conscience or any chance at redemption? Can he help himself? DVD F Enf
The Memory of a Killer (De zaak Alzheimer) Directed: Erik Van Looy, 2006 Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers. DVD F Mem Directed by: Kevin Brodie, 1999 A story, written by Marie Louise de la Ramée under the pseudonym Ouida in 1872, about a boy Nello and his grandfather, delivering milk as a livelihood in Hoboken, an Antwerp suburb, in the 19th century. One day, Nello found a dog, who was almost beaten to death, and named him Patrasche. Due to the good care of Johan, the dog recovered from his wounds and from then on Nello and Patrasche were inseparable. The story is widely known in Japan. Ju DVD F Dog Non-Fiction Belgium; Amsterdam & the Netherlands; Copenhagen & Denmark Rudy Maxa explores his favorite places in Brussels and Bruges, towns of Brussels that contrast with each other. He explores favorite places in Amsterdam and the Netherlands, and finally looks at things he likes about Copenhagen and Denmark. Video 914.9 Bel Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death Director: Peter Bale, 2006 Describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885-1908. Under his control, Congo became a labor camp of shocking brutality. People were starved and tortured in the name of harvesting rubber. DVD 967.51 Con The Dutch Masters: Rubens, 2006 Traces the development of the art of Rubens. Also features leading authorities, art historians and scholars. DVD 759.9493 Dut A definitive biography of artist Rene Magritte accompanied by spectacular images of his greatest works. DVD 759.9493 Ren Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, 2003 A plotless four-person musical revue based on the songs of Belgian balladeer Jacques Brel, the show opens on a dark and rainy Parisian night. Three strangers -- a cab driver, a soldier, and a meek woman -- find themselves in a theater. After watching a puppet show, they venture backstage and then onto a beach, where they sing songs during increasingly surreal events. DVD 782.14 Jac
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