Brugge, Die Stille (1981)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 90 minuten
Country:
Belgium
Directed by: Roland Verhavert
Stars: Chris Boni, Idwig Stephane and Magda Lesage
IMDb score:
5,8 (183)
Releasedate: 10 March 1981
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Brugge, Die Stille plot
A forty-year-old widower, from the upper middle classes and housed in an imposing mansion, lives solely for the memory of his deceased wife. Whenever the melancholy becomes unbearable, he goes for a walk along the canals of Bruges, where everything reminds him of his former lover. On one of his lonely journeys through Bruges, he meets a young ballet dancer who looks just like his wife. This completely confuses the man.
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Movsin
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Psychological drama that isn't exactly captivating.
The Bruges buildings and the deserted streets, with only the chicly dressed main characters in view, will stick in the mind more than the intrigue in this film.
It must have been a major disappointment for Verhavert at the time, because I did not read any glowing reviews anywhere.
I did recognize Chris Boni after all, now 35 years later, very popular in a Flemish soap. The main characters are actually unknown to me.
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Fisico
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I've never seen this one by Verhavert; I've heard of it, but I was never really drawn in by the poster or the film title... Long live Netflix, I suppose, to lower these barriers a bit.
Quite an atmospheric film set in beautiful Bruges with its imposing medieval streets and buildings. This stands in stark contrast to the melodramatic events of Hugues, who is left behind with his grief. A bourgeois type, stiff, somewhat conceited and pompous, even boring, yet someone with a certain empathy and sensitivity. It is a bit of a shame, though, that this mix of atmosphere between the character of Hugues and the setting is invariably interrupted by that bombastic background music. This completely takes you out of the story. Which is typical of that era, of course...
Dialogue is largely absent. Rather, slow, atmospheric shots. I didn't find the development with the new guy entirely bad, but Hugues clearly doesn't know what to do with it. The idolatry of his deceased wife dominates too much. Brutal ending of the film, to be taken literally and figuratively. Sits somewhere between just barely and quite (2.5*-3.0*).
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Vikanohara
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"Let me be who I am, not someone else."
This film certainly delivers on two things:
- It takes place in Bruges.
- And it is quite quiet there.
Quite a few false notes are played at the start—already a hint of what is to come? Although otherwise, the music is just about the best thing this film has to offer. Along with the beautiful images of Bruges, the Scone of course. And the fine costumes and hairstyles. But above all, the music! And the cinematography as well.
No, there was certainly much more to this, a sort of Giallo for example (the stalking scenes remind me of that). Quite a few fragments could easily have turned out very mysterious and creepy. The strangest thing was ultimately how the dancer could even love this man?
But... the ending made up for so much! That's why it's a bit difficult to rate, because there are some pretty beautiful elements in it in certain aspects. Maybe 2 or 2.5 would be a bit more logical, and without the (abrupt) ending, that's what it would have turned out like for me. But the impact of the ending was such that it made me ponder the entire story I had just experienced for a while, letting it sink in again, as it were (the roles of the confessor and the housekeeper, for example, who each contribute to the ultimately fatal outcome), and it reminded me enormously of a quote I once threw into a meme:
"You may gradually catch up, but not through the past."
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