35 years of love, one desperate divorce — this couple's last resort is absolutely bonkers.
Henri and Thom live together in Brussels and have been in perfect love for 35 years, or so it seems. Since Henri retired as a policeman, nothing has gone right. His days are dull and endless, his feelings are fading and their home has become a battlefield. Still in love, Thom is ready to do anything to rekindle the flame and save their relationship, even if it means asking for a divorce himself.
Acting
Dave Johns and Olivier Gourmet — two veterans absolutely demolishing every scene.
Writing
Lambert's script finds brutal humor in domestic warfare.
Direction
Intimate, claustrophobic framing makes their apartment feel like a pressure cooker.
Director
David Lambert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dave Johns is best known as the lead in Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake' — this is his first major role in a non-English language film, and he learned his French phonetically.
Belgian queer cinema has a rich tradition of melancholic relationship studies (see the Dardenne brothers' influence), and Lambert continues this with a specifically Flemish-French tension around aging gay identity.
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