Van Rompaey to shoot 'Blue Birds'
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 14/05/2009
International News: Film follows three generations of Beijing family -- Belgian helmer Christophe Van Rompaey will travel to China to shoot his soph feature "Blue Birds."
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Movie Trailer: Aanrijding in Moscou "Moscow, Belguim"
Good News Film Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Uh...she's married - married . Return to the movie trailers page Screenwriters: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem and Pat van Beirs Director: Christophe Van Rompaey Actors: Barbara Sarafian, Jurgen Delnaet and Johan Heldenberg
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Electric Sheep podcast: World Cinema, Spring 2009
Resonance FM Podcasts (Free subscription) | 18/04/2009
Electric Sheep podcast: World Cinema, Spring 2009 Interviews originally broadcast 26/03/09 on www.resonancefm.com In the latest edition of the Electric Sheep Magazine podcast, we’re looking at recent world and art-house cinema releases on DVD and in cinemas. Alex Fitch interviews the director (Christophe Van Rompaey) and star (Jurgen Delnaet) of the new Belgian rom-com Moscow, Belgium / [...]...
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PICK Moscow, Belgium : Kitchen-Sink Romance
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
We're not talking Dardennes here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu. Rather than an exquisitely frumpified rom-com creation, Matty (Barbara Sarafian), 41, is a middle-class Ghent mother of three pretending to ...
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'Idiots and Angels' tops Fantasporto
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/03/2009
Film News: Bill Plympton film nabs Grand Prize at festival -- The 29th Fantasporto Oporto Film Festival, Portugal's biggest fest, wrapped Sunday with Bill Plympton's animation feature "Idiots and Angels" taking the Grand Prize and screenplay award in the fantasy section.
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Movie review: 'Moscow, Belgium'
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 26/02/2009
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Dramatic comedy. Starring Barbara Sarafian and Jurgen Delnaet. Directed by Christophe Van Rompaey. With English subtitles. (Not rated. 102 minutes. At the Sundance Kabuki.) Few films tackle the question of whether a man with a...
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Review: 'Moscow, Belgium'
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 20/02/2009
Romantic comedy plays to Hollywood formula, albeit in a foreign setting.
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Review: 'Moscow, Belgium'
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 20/02/2009
In this raffish charmer, love is like the 10-ton truck driven by one of the unlikely sweethearts. It hits -- and it hits hard. "Moscow, Belgium" is as wonderfully contradictory as its title. A realistic romantic comedy with considerable raffish charm and a great spirit, it looks at love's struggles with an offbeat but very human eye.
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Christophe Van Rompaey waited to take his best shot
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
The romantic comedy 'Moscow, Belgium' hails from a country that produces few movies. To become a successful filmmaker in Belgium, one must have an undying passion for movies, unwavering perseverance, luck and a good day job -- even more so than in the U.S.
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Review: "Moscow, Belgium"
From the Front Row (Free subscription) | 18/01/2009
I love going into movies knowing nothing about them. Going in blind and being pleasantly surprised is always a nice feeling. Having been a professional film critic for five years now and a blogger for a little over two, that luxury is something I am rarely afforded anymore. When it is your job to be in the know you have to make some sacrifices, although I've never been one to avoid trailers and brief...
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Moscow, Belgium.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
"Charming comedies about unlikely romances ship out of Hollywood like genetically modified soybeans, so it seems a little unnecessary to import them here, as well," writes Leo Goldsmith at indieWIRE. "Moscow, Belgium, a fleet-footed May-December comedy that won hearts...
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Movie Review | 'Moscow, Belgium': The Pursuit of Happiness Is a Complicated Affair
New York Times (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
The steady attention to detail in “Moscow, Belgium” lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life.
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Moscow, Belgium
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
Charming comedies about unlikely romances ship out of Hollywood like genetically modified soybeans, so it seems a little unnecessary to import them here, as well. Besides, the joys -- sincere or sarcastic -- that domestic rom-coms offer are largely...
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REVIEW | Lady and Ghent: Christophe Van Rompaey's "Moscow, Belgium"
Movies (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
by Leo Goldsmith (December 15, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot .] Charming comedies about unlikely romances ship out of Hollywood like genetically modified soybeans, so it seems a little unnecessary to import them here, as well. Besides, the joys -- sincere or sarcastic -- that domestic rom-coms offer are largely based on a kind of fantasy celebrity matchmaking, a process of biochemical...
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Moscow, Belgium
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
The Flemish film in English subtitles starts out with Matty, a mother of three whose emotional tone is down in the green, murky part of life, clearly she is not a happy mother. We later find out why. But first, in her route to leave the supermarket she reverses her car into an 18-wheeler. Here [...]