Moscow, Belgium(Aanrijding in Moscou)

Name: Moscow, Belgium
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy

Belgium · 2008
1h 42m
Director Christophe Van Rompaey
Starring Barbara Sarafian, Jurgen Delnaet, Johan Heldenbergh, Anemone Valcke
Genre Romance, Drama, Comedy

‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her apartment, Matty takes a hot bath to recover from the afternoon’s emotionswhen the phone rings. It’s Johnny, apologizing for his behaviour on the parking lot. Matty tells him to stay out of her life. A dramatic comedy begins about a woman whose soul is full of dents and bruises.

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Village Voice by

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.

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

This Belgian comedy suffers from the fact that its mismatched lovers are so consistently unpleasant; it catches fire only in the scenes between the mother and the daughter.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

There are no big-name stars. Barbara Serafian, who is excellent, has a thin, eclectic resume. She looks a little like Frances McDormand.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

At worst is inoffensive. But that's the point. When you're making a movie about people whose lives are torn up in this way, inoffensiveness is, well, offensive.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

An uncommon comedy that is fairly serious most of the time.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

The movie's steady attention to detail lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life. Its eye and ear for the particular and for what is left unsaid in tense conversation is unerring.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.