Ups and downs are constantly juxtaposed in "The Broken Circle Breakdown," a bluegrass-infused Flemish meller about two lovers who lose their little daughter to cancer. Inspired by a stage performance ...

Belgian director Felix van Groeningen brought Johan Heldenbergh and Mieke Dobbels’ stage play The Broken Circle Breakdown to the big screen in 2012. The movie adaptation was met with universal acclaim ...

"The Broken Circle Breakdown," like the bluegrass music girding it, has a way of evoking any number of emotions. It is at turns sweet, romantic, funny and heartbreaking. More than anything, though, it ...

The Europa Cinema Networks awarded its top prize to Felix van Groeningen's drama about the relationship between a romantic atheist and a religious realist. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The ...

In “Belgica,” co-writer/director Felix van Groeningen (“The Broken Circle Breakdown“) focuses on the chaotic pulse of a successful bar/nightclub, and on the character clashes and personal failures ...

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One person who didn't hear when "The Broken Circle Breakdown" was announced as one of the five 2014 Best Foreign Language Film nominees was director Felix Van Groeningen. He had other plans. "I was ...

The Broken Circle Breakdown spares you no sentiment at all. It’s willfully melodramatic and all the better for it. A broad, decade-spanning tale, set in an almost unthinkably weird but remarkably ...

Blending cliché-prone genres — disease-of-the-week tearjerker, marital melodrama, musical — into an unwieldy but distinctive hybrid, Belgian director Felix van Groeningen's The Broken Circle Breakdown ...

It's a good thing Belgian-made The Broken Circle Breakdown became one of five nominees last week for the Foreign Language Film Oscar, because it otherwise might not have earned the stateside attention ...

Blending cliché-prone genres -- disease-of-the-week tearjerker, marital melodrama, musical -- into an unwieldy but distinctive hybrid, Belgian director Felix van Groeningen's The Broken Circle ...