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ACTOR
Bouli LannersFabrice AddePhilippe NahonDidier Toupy
DIRECTOR
Bouli Lanners
SYNOPSICS
Eldorado (2008) is a French movie. Bouli Lanners has directed this movie. Bouli Lanners,Fabrice Adde,Philippe Nahon,Didier Toupy are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. Eldorado (2008) is considered one of the best Comedy,Drama movie in India and around the world.
Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some extraordinary people and find themselves in ditto situations.
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Eldorado (2008) Reviews
Good stuff
This is a humorous film with a serious subtext. Bouli Lanners knows better than to befriend a young burglar he finds in his house, but, even though he's convinced the kid is a drug addict, he does anyway. He's got his reasons, which come out slowly. The two set off on a cross country (Belgium that is) road trip and meet some strange characters, including an elderly nudist, a psychic, and others. Each scene contains an interesting encounter, and the countryside is filmed beautifully. Bouli's behavior seems irrational throughout, but at the end you piece together why he does what he does, and you reread the film in your head. A little trivia. Bouli Lanners played a role in Asterix at the Olympics, alongside Alain Delon. Apparently Delon was such a jerk that Lanners stole his folding chair on the set. Well, the chair shows up here where it belongs to the ridiculous old nudist who sits in it throughout his scenes. Apparently Alain is none too happy...
Funny, trist, slow, fast and even morally
After some disappointing films during a french film festival in my city this film was a complete change. Just a few characters are needed to transport couple of message to the audience. There are a lot of funny though short dialogs. The landscape they re riding through is really lovely and the scenes are not exaggeratively long. The soundtrack just fits perfect especially since Devendra Banhart provides the song for the most sad scene of the film, Yvan helps Ellie to dig the garden of Ellies mom, who hasn't seen him for ages. You really get moved to tears in this very moment. Well, although Yvan is sure that Ellie is a drug addict, he helps him. At the end it becomes true but there is no explicit message the film sends to the viewer, you can judge on your own, no moral oppression thus.
Subversive road movie
A middle-aged man returns to his home in rural Belgium to find that it has been broken into, with a stranger hiding under his bed. He initially threatens the intruder, who refuses to come out, with violence and calling the police. When the stranger eventually emerges, he is found to be a scared young man purportedly seeking to return to his parents after overcoming a heroin addiction. His parents live on the other side of the country, and the older man offers to give him a lift. The ensuing road movie begins conventionally, with gradual bonding and chance meetings with various eccentrics as the Belgian landscape offers some choice cinematography opportunities. Although these initial encounters are mildly engaging and occasionally humorous, three incidents in the latter half challenge the low-key nature of the preceding action. This change of direction lends the film a more serious weight and a dark, meaty substance in place of a morality tale. An impressive piece of work, especially given the short running time (around 80 minutes). The older man is played by Bouli Lanners, who also writes and directs.
3 or 4 nice scenes and a few good-looking landscapes, but mostly boring.
The main characters come together because of dogs and eventually separate because of a dog. That fact is slightly more uninteresting than most of what happens in between. There were a few exceptions - when our two heroes first meet, when they twice receive car assistance and when they're at the parents' house. Some of the landscape shots were nice to look at too. Character development was MINIMAL. Yvan is mild-tempered, deals in imported, used American cars and is, judging by the casual orderliness of his home and personal appearance, a bachelor and probably not dating. Elie/Didier is a junkie-liar-thief who has no money, no drugs, no car and wants to travel to his parent's home. It takes about two thirds of the movie before you discover the relationship each has with their respective families and how it might explain why Yvan befriended Elie/Didier. What is never explained is why Yvan wants to believe the best about Elie/Didier in spite of what he sees. Ultimately, there wasn't enough there for me to take an interest in either character. This wasn't a terrible movie but once was enough. This movie is MAYBE a 5 but I think closer to a 4.
"I live my life, Mom".
The picture was a Belgian winner at Cannes as Best European Film Director's Fortnight, and I picked it up packaged as part of an 'Own the Film Movement Series'. Though there are some terrific foreign films, this one did not leave me impressed. It takes on the guise of a road film, after Yvan (Bouli Lanners) agrees to take Didier (Fabrice Adde) back to his parents' home, this after the recovering addict is found burglarizing Yvan's house. There are some unconventional characters that the pair come across along the way, but in it's attempt to be quirky, these chance encounters seem to be more contrived than accidental. The one scene that's played for poignancy involves Didier's mother, longing for some semblance of an emotional attachment to her son, but thwarted by an off screen husband who has no use for his shiftless son. Yvan conveys a rare insight into familial relationships that he imparts to his fellow traveler, while insisting they tend to an overgrown garden of weeds. This appears to be what's at the heart of the story, as Yvan despairs over the loss of his own younger brother, and now has no one left to call family. For the viewer, one is left to make what one will with the way the story ends, as there is no resolution in the traditional sense. If seen in the company of others, there will no doubt be an endless supply of possible explanations for how the story ends, or continues as it were.