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Broken Homes

Brussels Transit moves between fictional reenactments of the couple’s early years in Belgium and scenes in which the camera itself seems to be the one drifting through Brussels estranged.

Brussels Transit

Samy Szlingerbaum, 1980

Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique

THERE IS A DAZZLING LONG SHOT A THIRD OF THE WAY INTO this

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