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Gestes du repas

All films • 22m

by Luc de Heusch • 1958 • Belgium

This satirical ethnographic film shows eating Belgians in diverse contexts. Dinner scenes at weddings, funerals, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve portray a country: loneliness and community alternate, just as wealth and poverty.

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