The Sexual Life of the Belgians (original title: La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950–78) | |
Director: | Jan Bucquoy |
Producer: | Francis De Smet, Transatlantic Films Bruxelles |
Starring: | Jan Bucquoy, Noël Godin |
Music: | Francis De Smet, Marc Aryan, Gene Vincent, Will Tura, Peter Benoit, Les Dominos. |
Cinematography: | Michel Baudour |
Country: | Belgium |
Runtime: | 89 minutes |
Language: | French |
La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950–78 is a 1994 Belgian comedy film and satire on Belgian provincialism that proved a major cinematic success in Belgium. It was the first film by now-famed Flemish provocateur and director Jan Bucquoy. The film is an adaptation of Bucquoy's comic strip La Vie Sexuelle Avec Mes Femmes and has many autobiographical elements, following his youth in the 1940s, 1950s until the late 1960s.[1]
The film tells an autobiographical tale of a clueless young bumpkin, Jan, trying far from successfully to keep up with times failing equally at being a 1960s free-love youth or political activist and finally sinking into a mundane life.
The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC).