A frank and funny romantic comedy set in Antwerp, filmed in a quirkily inventive style, Madly in Love has a lot to say about human relationships. It focuses on the four women of the Miller family: teen daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older half-sister Michelle, as they work their way through the chaos called love. The result is a roller coaster ride of first crushes, lust, affairs, baby fever, and indestructible love. The four women are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but are also sometimes a bit lost. Can their male counterparts handle this dangerous cocktail of determination and female hormones?
Direction
Hilde Van Mieghem's playful visual inventiveness
Acting
four distinct performances, zero weak links
Writing
dialogue that actually sounds like women talking
Director
Hilde Van Mieghem
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of Belgium's rare commercially successful female-directed romantic comedies, it sparked debates about whether 'women's cinema' is a meaningful category or a marketing trap.
Director Hilde Van Mieghem cast her own daughter as young Eva, then spent years denying it in interviews to avoid nepotism accusations — before finally admitting it in 2018.
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