Belgian drama, based on a stageplay, "about passion, parenthood, sorrow and joy". Follows Elise and Didier, two unconventional star-crossed lovers...
Belgian drama, based on a stageplay, "about passion, parenthood, sorrow and joy". Follows Elise and Didier, two unconventional star-crossed lovers who fall for each other despite their differences. Audience Award winner at Berlin Film Festival and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2014 Academy Awards.
He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a free-spirited realist. Told over a number of years, the couple make a life together in a country farmhouse, begin a bluegrass band and raise a daughter, Maybelle. But when an unexpected tragedy arrives, their love is tested...
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83 %103 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
85 %5,066 reviewsAudience score rating
"The less convincingly scripted second half sputters more often than it shines."
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Variety
Variety"Van Groeningen blends the happiness and tragedy of life like a master alchemist, using music as an emotional life-raft, which is just as well: the bleak final third will test the hardiest of souls."
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Total Film
Total Film"When the narrative gets bogged down with science-versus-religion ranting, yet you're still left with a movie a little too reliant on playing clawhammer on your heartstrings."
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Time Out
Time Out"After a while, the temporal shuffling feels more programmatic than revelatory and increasingly false."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"I'm afraid I couldn't quite see past the oddness of its conceit: to redo Blue Valentine with songs."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Invigorating musical elements and the lead actors' potent chemistry can't entirely protect this tragic relationship drama from its encroaching shortage of subtlety."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Plot contrivances aside, it's easy to see why this Belgian drama, powerfully sound-tracked by bluegrass tunes, has seduced festival crowds."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineThe Broken Circle Breakdown | Details
Award winner- Winner of Label Europa Cinemas Panorama Audience Award, Berlin International Film Festival 2013.
- Rating
- M,
- Runtime
- 111
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Belgium
