Belgium Moscow by Christophe Van Rompaey

A supermarket car park on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. No sooner has she started to pull out her car, than Matty, mother of two children, drives into the lorry of a certain Johnny. He gets angry. She shouts. They argue. Then the police arrive. The incident resolved, Matty must face another, rather more complex situation; her husband Werne, who left her five months before for one of his young students…

As Matty’s life becomes a rapid chain of events, she is forced to weigh up the pros and cons between her desires and reality. The family life that she always dreamt of becomes a fragile ideal. Any unexpected event can turn your life upside down, even a car accident. All the more if you are not ready to face it.

Carried along by scenes which are at once humorous and dramatic, this tragi-comedy with witty dialogues offers us a contemporary love story. A story with which we can easily identify; bitter-sweet, funny, contradictory, ephemeral. In short, real.

Moscow, Belgium is a fairy tale in which the prince is not always charming, and wherein an ex-alcoholic ogre can have a good heart, and/or the heart of princesses falling for slippers which are not necessarily a perfect fit.

María Blanco Negre