In Bruges

Rating: 9/10 (15 March 2009)

It seems long , but is only complete, round and with open final. Must be seen and re-seen.Is not about Bruges or Belgium, Bruges is only the scenery..I think is about life and- and, not vs.- death and even afterlife or parallel situations, redemption, healing, paying;Bruges here is a sort of portal.Or a string with hidden dimensions, or a "black whole" which does not allow you to go away.Or a purgatory.It reminds me "Jacob's Ladder", and "With Closed Doors"-I don't know the English title-J.P.Sartre's drama, the one with the idea: Hell is the others.I liked the movie because I found more levels:1- the touristic level ,the scenery ; as the title, it's only the teasing ;2 -the adventure-detective one , rather unexpected or expected, depends where you look from;3- the artistic one ;one part movie in movie(like in The American Night-Fr.Truffaut); other one, how the so called dead for centuries art becomes very connected with the happening;4. the religious/ moral level, what leaves us thinking.