DVD Review: Eldorado: Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde: Movies & TV

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DVD Review: Eldorado: Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde: Movies & TV

Posted by admin | on 16 July, 05:19 AM

Review
A small but damn-near perfectly formed serio-comedynever puts a wrong foot forward in the direction of sentimentality or cliché. –Variety

About the Director
Bouli Lanners was born in Belgium in 1965. A self-taught painter, he worked at every possible job on shoots for Belgian television before making himself popular on Canal+ Belgium, by acting in sketches on Snuls, a comedy show created in 1989. Since then, he has directed films and played many supporting roles in Belgian and French productions, including The Carriers are Waiting by Benoît Mariage, Aaltra by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, Bunker Paradise, Enfermés dehors by Albert Dupontel, When the Sea Rises by Yolande Moreau, A Very Long Engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Cow-Boy by Benoît Mariage, Asterix at the Olympic Games, in which he plays the King of the Greeks, and I Always Wanted to be a Gangster by Samuel Benchetrit. We will soon see him in Où est la main de l’homme sans tête by the Malandrin brothers, and in Louise Michel by Delépine and Kervern.

In Eldorado, his second feature film as a director, he plays the lead. In 1999, he wrote and directed Travellinckx, a short road movie in black and white super 8, which did a world tour of film festivals. Two years later, the short film Muno confirmed his unusual style and was selected for the Directors Fortnight at Cannes and many other festivals. In 2005, he made his first feature film, Ultranova, a tender and ironic portrait of a group of misfits and a quirky look at his native Wallonia, which was awarded a prize at the Berlinale. He is currently writing his next two feature films.

Bleak but Heartfelt,

By Randy Buck (Brooklyn, NY USA) -

ELDORADO is a road movie with a difference; the humor’s subtle here, the heart’s subterranean, the little lessons from life usually learned in this kind of mismatched buddy flick muted, at best. But writer/director/star Bouli Lanners knows what he’s about, and his film gets under your skin and stays there for days. Haunting images, excellent acting, memorable soundtrack. ELDORADO richly deserved the honor it took at Cannes, and is highly recommended to all adventurous fans of foreign films.

The best!,

By Susan Page “Baghdad Cinemaphile” (Baghdad, Iraq) -

This movie is terrific. It was my favorite of the 2009 Palm Springs Film Festival. The director/lead actor and supporting cast are excellent — it is hard to believe they are acting and not “being.” I recommend this highly — you will become completely immersed in this snapshot of the characters’ lives.
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