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Eldorado

Directed by Bouli Lanners
Film Movement
2008
80 Minutes
Belgium
French
Comedy
French Language, Community
Not Rated
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Yvan, a middle-aged classic car collector, arrives home one evening to find Elie, a skinny young junkie, robbing his apartment. In a moment of sympathy, Yvan agrees to drive Elie to his parents' house in his vintage Chevrolet. So begins this absurdist but affecting road movie, awarded the Cannes Film Festival FIPRESCI prize, that follows these two on a bizarre journey across the spectacular Belgian landscape.

Cast

  • Bouli Lanners
  • Fabrice Adde
DVD Features

Bonus short: Icebergs, directed by Germinal Roaux

Sound: Stereo 2.0

Discs: 1

  • Highest Rating
    "A funny and melancholy road picture [full of] weird and wonderful characters."
    Ray Bennett, Film Journal International
  • Highest Rating
    "Writer-director Bouli Lanners’s tale ... has all the hallmarks of our own homegrown odes to two-lane blacktops."
    Time Out New York
  • Highest Rating
    "The beauty of the cinematography and the wonderous music...packs an emotional wallop."
    Jen Johans, Film Intuition
  • Highest Rating
    "CRITIC'S PICK. In “Eldorado,” a road movie that poignantly juggles absurdism and melancholy, the summertime landscape of the Wallonia region of Belgium is filmed to resemble a miniaturized American West."
    Stephen Holden, The New York Times

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Awards & Recognition

Winner
Best European Film (Director's Fortnight)
Cannes Film Festival
Winner
Special Mention
Pesaro Film Festival
Official Selection
Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection
Portland Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection
Cleveland Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection
Philadelphia Film Festival
Official Selection
Wisconsin Film Festival
Official Selection
Washington DC Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection
Berkshire Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection
Seattle Int'l Film Festival

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