The Stranger, August 2nd, 2007
Flanders
dir. Bruno Dumont
Against the gunmetal-gray landscape of rural France, childhood friends André (Samuel Boidin, a thick-torsoed man with Neanderthal physiognomy) and Barbe (another nonactor, the pretty Adélaïde Leroux) keep each other company. Their relationship is explained in a few furtive scenes: They fuck in a stand of trees, they hang out while André finishes tilling his fields. At a pub with another couple, André denies they're dating. Barbe immediately gets up from their table, flirts with another guy at the bar, and leaves with him. Her expression doesn't change. André'...
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