Belgian and European movies

This movie is indeed very much Hollywood inspired and doesn't really qualify as an art movie.

European movies, like movies in any other region, can be divided in 2 main categories: commercial movies and artistic movies. European commercial movies, however, are almost only succesful in the country they are made in, while the artistic movies are much more internationally distributed.

De Zaak Alzheimer (Memory of a killer) is one of the rather rare kind of European commercial movies that made it abroad the home country borders. But still, it's one of the better commercial movies.

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Back in the 1970's, Hollywood made movies like this. A comparison would be the second Dirty Harry movie (Magnum Force), or excellent TV series like Dragnet or Adam 12, or perhaps the Police Story TV series. Then, Jaws and the original Star Wars movie ushered in the Blockbuster era. Since then, Hollywood movies have been just plain stupid. European movies, lacking big budget, have executed like the old Hollywood with excellent storytelling, great acting and directing, as well as staying above the absurdity of present day Hollywood. A good example of Euro movies with greatness is the American titled "Stolen Children". The acting in this movie is so excellent that it's a classic in my book and it is a crying shame that the Oscar committee hasn't realized the greatness of this movie. American Beauty was held up as THE depiction of a family unraveling. For a much better euro movie on the subject, I suggest Meiner Schwester Der Kuss. La Petite Sirene is a French movie about a man surrendering to a 14 year old girl taking over the life of a man she is obsessed with. It is an intelligent movie-one with subject matter so controversial that Hollywood would never touch it, but it is entertaining and compelling. Les Diables, is an excellent movie about how the system fails those with autism and other mental illnesses. Hollywood wouldn't produce such a bare bones look at a broken down system, so the winner over and over is euro movies.

AND THERE YOU GO !
Belgium movies and europian are NOT NEVER NADA amateuristic
the fact is that if european movies would have the money like americans then
the cliché hollywood scene would be in extremely serious trouble .
On this fact i think that american moviemakers are big cowards
because they very rarely try a movie that has a good and therefore ORIGINAL
script and scenario with actors who are way more better than those dashing-I'm-going-to-make-a-million-dollars-actors who besides some are rarely worth something.

ps : Don't get me wrong JACK NICHOLSON RULES !

I realy liked "Alles moet weg", you know, Stanny Crets (went to the same school as that guy) playes this closet homosexual who encounters a burglar (Peter Van de Begin) and they become best friends. It's a very humouristic film, but also touching at some points. Alzheimer was good, but too Hollywood.

I suggest watching French, German and Spanish movies. They are mostly a lot better than what is produced in Belgium.

"Possibly European movies are better than American ones".

Don`t think so at all - in fact, America has produced by far the greatest number of masterpieces throughout the history. That`s because of the sheer number of films being made there, and the superior budgets (in an expensive artform which film is, money does tend to help, create options etc).



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