belgian cinema – Warped Perspective

Fantasia 2022: Megalomaniac

Posted on July 24, 2022July 25, 2022 by Keri O'Shea

There’s been a tendency in pop culture to present serial killers as monolithic: they’ve often been painted as almost supernatural, not only ungoverned by the usual social and cultural norms but devoid of familial ties, too. But that is changing: more recent films and TV have hinted at least at something more going on with […]

Doubleplusungood (2017)

Posted on October 14, 2017October 14, 2017 by Keri O'Shea

The legacy of Catholicism in French and Belgian left-field cinema seems to mean a strange predilection for Christian themes, although it finds its form in curious ways. In recent years we’ve had Calvaire, made in 2004 (retitled ‘The Ordeal’ for English audiences, which neatly strips it of its Biblical meaning), the Christmas creation horrors of […]