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Film Info

Belgium 2012 | 111 min. Director: Felix van Groeningen
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The Broken Circle Breakdown

Synopsis

THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN tells the love story between Elise and Didier. She has her own tattoo shop, he plays the banjo in a band. It is love at first sight, in spite of major differences. He talks, she listens. He is a dedicated atheist, although at the same time a naïve romantic. She has a cross tattooed in her neck, even though she has both feet firmly on the ground.

Their happiness is complete after their little girl Maybelle is born. Unfortunately, Maybelle, at six years old, becomes seriously ill. Didier and Elise respond in very different ways. But Maybelle does not leave them any choice. Didier and Elise will have to fight for her together.

Will you get through something like that if you are so different? Or will love let you down if you need it most? THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN is an intense melodrama, full of passion and music. About how love can conquer fate, and sometimes not.

www.thebrokencirclebreakdown.be/en

Cast & Crew

Director's comment

THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN is an adaptation of a theatre play by Johan Heldenbergh. Johan is a friend and I've worked with him as an actor on two of my previous films. When I saw his play I was totally flabbergasted. The combination of the personal story, the music, and the theme (reason vs religion) just blew me away. Johan is very interested in film, so he was very excited when I expressed my interest in an adaptation.

He was also in favour of not collaborating on the screenwriting. So I started working on the script together with screenwriter Carl Joos, but we had to start over a couple of times, before we could really crack it, as it was a pretty complex story.

Cast & Crew

Felix van Groeningen
Dirk Impens
Felix van Groeningen, Carl Joos
Ruben Impens
Nell Cattrysse, Geert van Rampelberg, Nils de Caster, Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh
Nico Leunen
Jan Deca
Bjorn Eriksson
Kurt Rigolle
Ann Lauwerys
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