Flanders movie review & film summary (2007)
May contain spoilers Before leaving for war, Demester (Samuel Boidin, with Adelaide Leroux) enjoys some splendor in the grass in Flanders. Now streaming on: It was W. G. Sebold who said that animals and men gaze at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. Here is a film that crouches on the screen like a great sullen beast. It is impossible to embrace, impossible to dismiss. I do not know what it is thinking, how it perceives life. But the film is not about animals. It is about men and women, inarticulate to the point of silence, putting one weary foot ahead of another in a mar...