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Verbrande Brug (1975)

Drama | 85 minutes
2,85 46 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 85 minuten

Alternative titles: Pont Brulé / Burned Bridges

Country: Belgium / France

Directed by: Guido Henderickx

Stars: Jan Decleir, Doris Arden and Malka Ribowska

IMDb score: 5,7 (153)

Releasedate: 21 April 1977

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Verbrande Brug plot

A social drama set in the hamlet of Verbrande Brug, an industrial setting. There is a fair and it brings a number of old acquaintances back together. The renewed meeting stirs up quite a few emotions...

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Fisico

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A rather mediocre film about a neighborhood full of marginalized people where drinking and indecent talk are commonplace. The story is wafer-thin and actually subordinate to the context. The bleak surroundings of the Burnt Bridge are well-depicted. Gloomy and dilapidated, trash strewn everywhere, rubbish and shacks next to old houses; even the weather is as dreary and bleak as the future of most residents.

Few, if not none, sympathetic characters, at least not without Grietje. Lots of pub banter, literally and figuratively. Not great at all. Decleir tries to salvage it, but he too falls for it. All in all, the film is quite digestible, but it's not memorable.

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Movsin

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The sound is bad, there are passages of ridiculous overacting, and some unimportant scenes go on far too long, and yet this film is appealing because of the portrayal of these clumsy people, incapable of controlling themselves or building anything decent in their lives, so much so that I briefly considered giving it a 3.5... but 3 is already good.

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AngelicV

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Traumatized people in this powerful drama about a lost village in Flanders where a café by the bridge completes the bleak existence of the locals. De Cleir plays a powerful role as a father with a girlfriend, and Arden, who has a child from another relationship, is excellent. The film gradually reveals the deeper emotional wounds, culminating in a powerful finale. Arden's solo in the bathroom is impressive. Furthermore, it takes us back to the 70s in Flanders, where the annual fair transforms into a "true village festival." A highlight: the dancers on stage with the live music. (Eddy Wally moment.) A true-to-life movie. 3.2*

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