The Broken Circle Breakdown

Film - 2012

8,5

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The Broken Circle Breakdown it's a movie with Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert Van Rampelberg, Nils De Caster Full cast. Directed by Felix Van Groeningen. Original title The Broken Circle Breakdown, runtime 111 minutes. Genre Drama.

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Henri Floyd Lynch

Elise and Dider live an intense love story to the rhythm of music. But passion is not indelible and the more it burns with strength the faster it runs towards the time of erosion, involving the journey into a deep pain that no type of ink can heal. Dider plays the banjo in a bluegrass band, Elise preserves the memory of past loves on her skin thanks to the tattoos she is covered with, while maintaining a magnetic elegance that finds maximum expression in her singing. Music is the spark for love at first sight that overwhelms the lives of the two young people, transforming it into a river of passion. Nothing seems to be able to hinder such a longing for love, especially after the birth of little Maybelle. But life, sooner or later, demands the bill, and Dider and Elise will be forced to pay inauspiciously in advance. "The most difficult thing is to love and music is an activity that prepares man for this arduous task". Wanting to encapsulate the essence of the film in one sentence, there is no better choice than this aphorism by ethnomusicologist John Blacking. Loving means being in tune with what surrounds us; we can go along with the flow of events or resist and not love. Therefore music helps man to fluidity and has to do with love in all its declinations. This film lives under the banner of music which from the beginning marks the relationship of the protagonists, in joy and in pain, giving them the strength to overcome the most difficult moments, to continue to love despite adversity. Here is concentrated the ceaseless effort of all couples who defend the integrity of feeling, seeking the harmony necessary to support the entropic flow of existence. The ambivalent sound of the banjo, capable of condensing vitality and melancholy in the same note, perfectly reflects the unstoppable vortex of peaks and troughs Read all

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The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.