Sleep deprived Monday #FilmDinner with #AndréDelvaux's Belle (1973). #film ##Belgium

#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 20: French spoken on #FrenchLanguageDay

A Walloon language professor and his French set designer fiancée are at an impasse. While his Flemish students vocally protest against more Walloon influence at their uni, the couple - who superficially speak the same #language, #French - struggles to find the right words. They meet, part ways, then find each other again on a train that at morning turns out to be standing still in the middle of nowhere. The man, now without her, disembarks and with two acquaintances who also were on that train tries to find out where he and she are. André Delvaux's Un soir, un train (1968) is a masterpiece about finding the right language in a fractured world.

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A late-ish #FilmDinner once again. And a rewatch. Again.

Watching André Delvaux's Un soir, un train [One Night… a Train] (BE/FR, 1968), starring the grand Yves Montand and Anouk Aimée, and based on the novella by Johan Daisne. Both writer and directer worked on De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen [The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short] (1965), one of the most sublime films I've watched this year so far.

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