Julien Schoenaerts – MRQE

Ellektra

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ellektra is a story about comfort. The main character Sam finds real comfort and is released from her virtual comfort, drugs. Her true comfort is the sixteen year old girl Ellen, who puts people suffering from severe misfortune into contact with each other through SMS, and gives new meaning to their lives.

Taxandria

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.

Wildgroei

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A female writer bases her newest book on the affair she had with her publisher in this Dutch drama. Lin is the glamorous writer who finds herself pulled out of a canal by two riverboat men. Her story is told in flashback. Her recently published book “Wildgroei”(Dutch for “Wild Growth”) chronicled her one-sided passion for her publisher Emile who chose Lin’s sister Marot instead.

Meeuwen sterven in de haven

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people to show him understanding are an orphan and two disillusioned women.