With Friends Like These (Dagen zonder lief)

A good movie

“This year, I saw ‘Belgica’ and since I thought it was pretty good, I was quite eager to see the other movies directed by Felix van Groeningen . First of all, those Belgian movies are usually with subtitles when they are broadcast on the Dutch channels but, since I saw it on a Belgian channel, there were no subtitles at all and I think I understood only 50% of the dialogue.  And, yet, even though I barely understood what the characters were saying, there was still something quite mesmerizing about this movie. Indeed, even though I have seen so far only 2 movies directed by van Groeningen, I think his strongest quality is that he always manages to provide some really 3 dimensional characters who always feel so genuine. Indeed, instead of the usual pretty faces that you get in your Holly” read more