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Released Feb 9

1h 22m

Drama

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Here follows Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels who is about to return home to visit his mother, and maybe stay... longer. Using the leftovers from his fridge, he cooks up a big pot of soup and begins handing it out as farewell gifts to friends and family. But while waiting for his car to be fixed, he meets Shuxiu, a Belgian-Chinese woman preparing a doctorate on mosses. Her attention to the near-invisible stops him in his tracks. On the heels of Ghost Tropic (2019), Bas Devos offers another Brussels city symphony. With a quiet grace that's becoming a trademark, he and his team capture both the longing of contemporary urban life and the potential for enchantment that still exists in spaces shared by strangers from different worlds.

Laura Venning

Little White Lies

At only 84 minutes and light on plot, at times this film feels so slight that it might just slip through your fingers. And yet its ethereality is what makes it enchanting.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 11, 2024

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Nothing is overtly stated -- this is a Bas Devos film after all. But the details -- a small gift (of soup, what else?) and the private smile that greets it -- speak volumes.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 10, 2024

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

It crept up on me at its own measured walking pace -- and it incidentally has the best and cleverest last line of any film I have seen this year.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 5, 2024

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Hayley Croke

Loud and Clear Reviews

While aesthetically beautiful, Bas Devos’ fourth feature film Here fails to meaningfully answer the questions of identity it poses.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 20, 2024

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Fernando Bernal

Cinemanía (Spain)

With this story, Devos vindicates the weight of the essential against the roar of the grandiloquent and a cinema that looks inward so that the viewer sees himself reflected in its images. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Oct 16, 2024

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Alex Heeney

Seventh Row

Bas Devos’s exquisite film of urban wanderings...is a quietly feel-good film of existential ponderings and fleeting connections.

Rated: 5/5

Oct 5, 2024

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Audience Member

Didn’t hate it but it was slow, boring and sad. Some cool AI scenery but there was no plot only that you should live life to the fullest and go after your dreams.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/02/24

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Dean H

One of those movies that you watch and makes you think about it for a long time. Very little investment required as it’s decently short but they make every second count. Worth a watch.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/07/24

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Phillip B

This is perhaps the best film I’ve seen in a theater in a couple of years. I saw it twice the week it was in town, and was thoroughly enchanted both times. Talk about doing more with less. Absolutely pitch perfect, and the film makers never insult our intelligence by giving us more information than we nominally need to keep moving forward. It works almost like a classic silent film. Little quiet bombs of understanding would burst in my mind for weeks following this move. Exactly what cinema should do.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

09/28/24

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Thomas C

This is a fine movie with the best cinematography I have ever seen. The beauty is still vibrating in my spirit. Here is one of the rare art masterpieces that humanizes its viewers.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/18/24

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Synopsis

Here follows Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels who is about to return home to visit his mother, and maybe stay... longer. Using the leftovers from his fridge, he cooks up a big pot of soup and begins handing it out as farewell gifts to friends and family. But while waiting for his car to be fixed, he meets Shuxiu, a Belgian-Chinese woman preparing a doctorate on mosses. Her attention to the near-invisible stops him in his tracks. On the heels of Ghost Tropic (2019), Bas Devos offers another Brussels city symphony. With a quiet grace that's becoming a trademark, he and his team capture both the longing of contemporary urban life and the potential for enchantment that still exists in spaces shared by strangers from different worlds.

Director: Bas Devos
Producer: Marc Goyens
Screenwriter: Bas Devos
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Production Co: Quetzalcoatl
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 1h 22m

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