Het Verdriet Van BoudewijnJules Comes & Ward Collin

"Sire, there are no more Belgians." Had he been alive today, Jules Destrée would say it once more. Now that the royal family no longer delivers majesties of the reconciling type, two filmmakers turn to the illegitimate progeny of the last monarch who actually wanted to connect the different parts of the country. In their search for the soul of Belgium, they find the lost son of King Baudouin. Will this bastard prince be able to reunite the land?

Belgium is bursting. Neither Albert II nor Filip have been able to change that. What else keeps the country together? Who or what did in the past? Jules Comes and Ward Collin dig deeper into the national history. They end up with King Baudouin. After all, "Baudouin was Belgium." Having risen to power as a result of the thorny Royal Question, the fifth king of the Belgians managed to unite the whole country once more for over forty years. The blue blood that flowed through this man's veins must have been of exceptional quality. When the documentary makers find out that there is an illegitimate son, they decide to investigate. The sadness of Baudouin and Belgium always went hand in hand, will this also apply to the prince's descendants? It should be clear that Comes and Collin did not actually track down a male (and cousin of) Delphine Boël. In this hilarious mockumentary, they mock the obsessions and gossip about the royal family, as well as its role in Belgian identity. The result is, of course, completely Belgian in all its absurdity. Ceci n'est pas a documentary.



Vertoond op editie(s) 2018
Screened at edition(s) 2018

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Directed by Jules Comes & Ward Collin
Belgium
2018 52 min.
Dutch, French
Subtitles: Dutch

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Mock the doc

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Jules Comes & Ward Collin

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