"Bleekhof" Laureaat Beste Nederlandstalig Filmscenario, Vlaamse Gemeenschap
BLANVAL
Co-written with Daniel Goldenberg and Isabelle Willems
Based upon “Bleekhof” by Pierre De Clercq
| Director: | Michel Mees |
| Cinematographer: | Patrice Payen |
| Music: | Jorge Arriagada |
| Producer: | Jacqueline Pierreux |
| Production: | RTBf (Brussels), Zenab (Brussels), AO Productions (Paris), SGGC (Paris) |
| Cast: | Zabou, Wladimir Yordanoff, Michel Feller, Catherine Aymerie, Serge Demoulin, Nicole Valberg, François Marthouret, Erik Burke, Rick Hancke, Nicole Colchat |
| Original language: | French |
| Running time: | 90 minutes |
| Year: | 1991 |
Synopsis:
“Curiously, the script has certain parallels with the first Belgian classic, Albert Machin’s War is Hell. It also features a heroine who falls in love with a foreign aviator against the backdrop of war. Both films are bathed in a bittersweet romanticism between passion and fate, dread and tears. However, for the young washerwoman of the château de Blanval, the drama is played out between three pretenders: an injured Canadian soldier she is hiding, a German officer whose ambiguous affection protects her and the steward of the estate, an odious blackmailer.”
René Michelems, Belgian Cinema,
The Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels, 1999
