Europe Endless - Belgium: The Kid with a Bike (Dir Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 1h27m, 2011)
In 2022, Sight and Sound 's decade poll named 1975's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , directed by Chantal Akerman, as the greatest film of all time. It is, at least in part due to this, the most famous Belgian film. No national cinema is a single film: Belgium is no exception, its history in the medium tied to its surrounding neighbours, and in particular France and Germany. Particularly from the 1980s onwards, where a new generation replaced the likes of Akerman in advancing the status of Belgian cinema, reaching the 1990s as frontrunners of European cinema. Examples include as the ultra-violent black comedy Man Bites Dog ( C'est arrivé près de chez vous, Dir. Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde, 1992) and the fantastical Toto the Hero (Dir. Jaco Van Dormael). From this came the Dardenne brothers, with the coming of age drama, Rosetta (1999). It, and L'Enfant (2005), would win the...
