Another great masterpiece from Dormael

Rating: 10/10 (24 November 2011)

Again Dormael tells another life-long story about destiny, love and the choices we make trying for happiness and that clearly tear us apart from that very happiness.
As in all Dormael's movies there is a moment in childhood where the loss of innocence dictates your vision of life, your way of seeing things and therefore the choices you make. And every choice leads you further and further away form that golden age of childhood innocence.
In Dormael's movies the soundtrack clearly illustrates that notion. Cheerful music for the childhood scenes.
He also implies that the use of fiction as a way of escaping reality and even trying to change it. all of this is, obviously, unfruitful.
Most of the reviews for this movie that are not good come from people that either looked at the big argument of the movie or followed the small episodes, not understanding that both are vital and should be understood as a whole.
For those that like this movie: check out Dormael's great Toto, Le Heros - the story of a guy who lives his whole live with the certainty that he was swapped as a child and he should be living someone else's life instead. Magnificent.