★★★☆☆ Scottish filmmaker Duncan Lloyd (Pieter van der Houwen) has been tasked with the seemingly impossible job of making a documentary on the Belgian monach King Nicolas III (Peter van der Begin), entitled Our King, intended to improve the king's bumbling image. In fact, there's something of our own future king Charles III in the lanky regent's nice-but-dimness. Disaster strikes however when, on a diplomatic visit to Turkey, Nicolas issues a proclamation called "We're fed up" and declares independence. ""Why split a peanut?", Lloyd laconically comments.
- 9/5/2016
- by CineVue
- CineVue
It's still early days, but Peter Brosens’ and Jessica Woodworth's tag team effort on the rib-tickling mockumentary King of the Belgians could well be one of the finest films of the 73rd Venice Biennale. With great alacrity, this extremely funny movie pictures a world where a Scotsman (Pieter van der Houwen) is hired to make an official documentary about the incumbent King, fictionally transformed into Nicolas III. Or, at least, that’s certainly how the scene starts. Boozey documentarian Duncan Lloyd captures a royal visit to “Mini Europe,” a quirky Belgian model village that recreates Europe’s major sights. But a transferal of this model village to Turkey as a symbolic demonstration of the Belgium’s commitment to integrating Turks into the European Union soon spirals into an...
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- 9/3/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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