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Moscow, Belgium Reviews
Involving domestic drama that lingers a little too long at the kitchen sink.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2020
Van Rompaey constructs the film with a delightful sense of whimsy, accentuated by the Amelie-like score by Tuur Florizoone.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2019
| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011
There aren't many surprises%u2014the characters end up more or less where we expect them to%u2014but it's useless and not at all fun to deny the simple pleasures of this film.
| Aug 8, 2009
Barbara Sarafian provides a full-bodied portrait of mature female strength as a mother named Matty in Moscow, Belgium.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2009
Director Christophe Van Rompaey has a script, of course, but much of what comes across so eloquently in this Flemish comedy of ill-manners is wordless.
| May 29, 2009
The film's portrait of a middle-class family and its daily clashes, both major and minor, is spot-on.
Full Review | May 28, 2009
The movie just can't decide whether it likes romance or disdains it, whether it wants to be dark or bright.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009
There's nothing special about the story in Moscow, Belgium. But the lead performance? Very special.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 17, 2009
...a terrific vehicle for Sarafian, an actress who proves that middle age can still be intriguing and sexy.
| Original Score: B | Apr 13, 2009
Moscow, Belgium feels not only like a movie from another culture but from another world.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2009
As Matty, Sarafian is a marvel as she changes from a gray moth to a girlish butterfly, and Delnaet is delightful as the slightly dangerous Johnny.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2009
A European-style chick flick where all the women are wonderful and the men jerks. Unlike the American genre, this is one men can actually sit through and enjoy
| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 12, 2009
Not many Belgian films are made, let alone seen in the U.S., so this fresh and quirky feature debut (which world-premiered in 2008 Cannes Fest), about an unusual romantic triangle, is more than welcome.
| Original Score: B | Mar 11, 2009
A splendid little offbeat love story, Moscow, Belgium is a near-quintessential foreign art-house film: smart, sweet, intriguing, well-made and emotionally familiar while still unique.
| Original Score: A- | Mar 6, 2009
Barbara Sarafian's performance in this incongruously scintillating little film is a joy.
| Mar 4, 2009
Few films tackle the question of whether a man with a history of domestic violence can learn to love again -- and fewer still do it in a subtly comedic and charming way.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2009
The romantic triangle plays out somewhat predictably but has welcome wit, well-defined characters and strong acting -- especially by Sarafian, who's intense and strangely sexy in quite the unglamorous role.
| Feb 27, 2009
Perhaps I am being too hard on "Moscow, Belgium," which at worst is inoffensive.
| Original Score: B- | Feb 24, 2009