A story about two struggling people who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive?
Acting
Bafort's fragile strength steals every scene
Direction
van Groeningen finds poetry in gutter settings
Writing
Dialogue that never judges its desperate characters
Director
Felix van Groeningen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This launched Felix van Groeningen's career and established the 'Gent school' of raw, working-class Belgian cinema.
The actors improvised heavily; the infamous karaoke scene was Titus De Voogdt's actual drunken idea.
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