Eldorado (2008)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Bouli Lanners

Writer:

Bouli Lanners (writer)

Release Date:

1 May 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Yvan finds a burglar in his house. He doesn't call the police and decides to give the young man a lift home to his parents.

Plot Keywords:

Thief | Belgium | Chevrolet | Dog | Animal Burial

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Bouli Lanners	...	Yvan
Fabrice Adde	...	Didier dit Elie
Philippe Nahon	...	Le collectionneur
Didier Toupy	...	Le naturiste
Françoise Chichéry	...	La maman d'Elie
Stefan Liberski	...	Le garagiste #1
Baptiste Isaia	...	Le garagiste #2
Rausin Jean-Jacques	...	Le motard #1
Renaud Rutten	...	Le motard #2
Jean-Luc Meekers	...	L'homme du parking
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michaël Abiteboul
Pauline Denis
Fanny Deprelle
Marc Joris	...	Jésus

Runtime:

Belgium:80 min | France:85 min | USA:80 min

Country:

Belgium | France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:6 | Netherlands:AL

Filming Locations:

Liège, Belgium

Company:

Casa Kafka Pictures

Trivia:

Award: Prix Regards Jeunes

Soundtrack:

La Brabançonne

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.