Sometimes foreign language films can be surprisingly moving because you're forced to engage more with the facial expressions and unspoken acting than you would with your native language based films. The Broken Circle Breakdown is exactly that. Heartbreaking, relentlessly emotional, and undeniably honest, you never feel comfortable watching this film and are constantly challenged to feel some sort of happiness with the dread that's happening on screen. Although all these things are true, I do feel like there wasn't enough explanation of what the point of all this was. Or just simply, what the film was trying to say. Is it just telling us that amidst all that's good and lovely with the world is an insane amount of sadness and despair. And I guess that's fine, but I could have used a bit more depth.7.5/10

This is a very expressive but believable sexy drama that attracts you from the beginning. The language in which feelings and emotions are exposed is rich as well as effective: the movie gets to you in many different ways. Its musicality makes it a very vivid film. The plot is about a passionate relationship in an environment in which the cult of beauty and pleasure is professed. The charm of the main characters, the lifestyle of a couple who have it all worked out, who are happy, seduce you from the first minute. But as the movie goes on the vertigo seizes you as much as them; the feeling that things can break down at any moment, that they can only get worse, that glory is not forever, increasingly cause a lump in your throat. The movie follows an almost-circular narrative structure, placing the sacrifice in the middle of the footage. After enjoying so much passion and beauty the tragedy hurts more. That's when catharsis happens: A sea of tears with bluegrass playing in the back. Thank you for such a beautiful and pleasant drama.

This is a movie about complete and utter sadness, but still so beautiful. It made me sad, it made me want to listen more to the music (I don't even like bluegrass) and it made me think about it afterwards. It's a movie about a love story, a unbearable sorrow and life. Music guides us thru it all. Too sad but still very much a movie worth the time. Movies from Belgium never reaches my view but this one did, and I'm glad.

Didier and Elise love each other very much. Didier's mind is mainly committed with rationalism while Elise's is more committed with spiritualism. Their life is quite happy since they met and have a baby a little after. Yet, The fatal illness of their daughter is a dramatic ordeal for their relationship, in a first moment, and for their existence, in a second moment. Didier insists keeping his rationalist attitude against Elise spiritualist attitude. Their relationship and marriage are torn apart, Elise commits suicide and die. Yet, Didier and Elise never stopped to love each other. The last scene, when the apparatus that keeps Elise in vegetative life are turned off and when Didier and his band play a music, seems to say that Didier started to put some spiritualism in his existence; sadly it's too late. I see two messages in this story. The first one is: certain ordeals can be overcome only with spirituality. The second, which derive from the first is: a marriage is much better if the couple share spirituality. The film is moving, the actors are convincing, and the sound track is nice.