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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
| 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
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 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
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 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
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
Perhaps I am being too hard on "Moscow, Belgium," which at worst is inoffensive.
| Original Score: B- | Feb 24, 2009
Nothing will ever be easy for any of these characters, and that is why we care about them so.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2009
Emotions run deep but are never overdone.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 20, 2009
Directed by Christophe Van Rompaey, this Belgian comedy suffers from the fact that its mismatched lovers are so consistently unpleasant.
| Feb 20, 2009
The way Belgian actress Barbara Sarafian plays the opening sequence you're not sure if you're entering a tragedy, or a tragicomedy, or what. The film turns out to be "or what." It's also worth seeing.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 8, 2009
Notice how deeply the director, Christophe van Rompaey, has drawn us into these lives, how much we finally care, and with what sympathy all the actors enter into the enterprise.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 8, 2009
A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2008
The steady attention to detail in Moscow, Belgium lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2008
We're not talking the Dardennes brothers here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu.
| Dec 16, 2008
The aspirations of this quirky Belgian import might be feel-good indie, but the copious flaws smack of pure Hollywood drivel.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 16, 2008