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The Broken Circle Breakdown, Flemish hit of the autumn

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- Felix Van Groeningen's The Broken Circle Breakdown is a hit, with no less than 100,000 tickets sold in barely two weeks.

Released on October 10, The Broken Circle Breakdown [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Felix van Groeningen
interview: Felix Van Groeningen
interview: Felix Van Groeningen
film profile
]
, Felix Van Groeningen's fourth film, is a hit at the Belgian box office, with no less than 100,000 admissions in barely two weeks of exhibition. And it's not about to stop, as the film still has 34 copies in circulation, i.e. 3 more than the week it was released! Last week, the film received a Gold Award from the Ostend Film Festival, an award for Flemish box office hits all year round. The Broken Circle Breakdown follows in the footsteps of Felix Van Groeningen's previous film, The Misfortunates [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Felix van Groeningen
film profile
]
, the surprise hit of 2009, which then made over 425,000 admissions. The numbers are a little less for The Broken, but it will not be able to benefit from any Cannes effect, unlike The Misfortunates which was a noted hit at the Directors' Fortnight.

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This half term holiday and its dismal weather should allow the film to continue to seduce the Belgian public. Or at least the Flemish one. Because, as for most Flemish films, The Broken Circle Breakdown was not released in Wallonia. While French-language auteur films are regularly released in two or three Flemish cinemas, the opposite seems impossible for Flemish films, despite these films however reaching a French-speaking audience through their release in Brussels cinemas. Meanwhile, the film seems set for some of the best admissions for a Belgian film in 2012, and Van Groeningen has consolidated his name in Flemish cinema. As for the film's main actress, Veerle Baetens, she has been chosen to play in a prestigious BBC production, The White Queen, a series to be entirely shot in Flanders and to recount the War of the Roses, in which Baetens is to play Margaret of Anjou.

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(Translated from French)

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