The Sexual Life of the Belgians (1994) La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978
The Sexual Life of the Belgians (1994)
DVDRip | MKV | 640x416 | x264 @ 1100 Kbps | 80 min | 741 Mb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Erotic
DVDRip | MKV | 640x416 | x264 @ 1100 Kbps | 80 min | 741 Mb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Erotic
Director: Jan Bucquoy
Writer: Jan Bucquoy
Stars: Jean-Henri Compère, Noe Francq, Isabelle Legros
Jan Bocquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels. There he meets Greta, bartender at a Bohemian cafe, who teaches him the Kama Sutra, the naked Esther, who reads him stories, and Thérèse, his wife for three years. They split after two children; he moves to a small flat, writes pornography to pay the bills, works sporadically on a novel, espouses anarchism, and meets more women. His self-confidence grows.
This movie is not entirely autobiographical: I think the author takes his life as a model to narrate us the problem of the upbringing youth and their sexual apprenticeship. He starts from his native Harelbeke, a little town in Belgium. His first sexual experience is with "sale culotte" which remains a no-event. He must learn his first kiss, and after all his beginnings are very romantic. Then he moves to Brussels, the university with the demonstrations against Vietnam and where he hopes to start his career as a writer. The film develops in free sketches which show his marriage and divorce and all the lovely girls he meets. After all this film can be shown to kids of ten years old and with some comment by the parents I am sure they will learn a lot which can be very useful for their adult life.
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The Sexual Life of the Belgians (1994) La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978
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