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The Drop
Why this pick
Roskam brings Bullhead’s same tactile, working-class criminal milieu to Brooklyn, with a quiet, physically imposing man whose guarded loneliness slowly tightens into danger.
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its isolated livestock-farming setting and taciturn, emotionally burdened men resonate with Bullhead’s rural melancholy, while its dry humour gives the hardship a different tonal edge.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In Sint-Truiden, cattle farmer Jacky (Matthias Schoenaerts) who runs the family business, visits a distant relative and intimidates him into selling cows. In the Limburg province, a mafia deals in illegal hormones and controls the cattle and meat trade. The farmers sell cows to the mafia, who inject the cows with hormones and the cows are made into food. Jacky is a thirty-something angry lonely man with a muscular physique who is addicted to steroids.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jeroen Perceval
Diederik Maes
Barbara Sarafian
Eva Forrestier
Tibo Vandenborre
Antony De Greef
Erico Salamone
Christian Fillippini
Kris Cuppens
Jean Vanmarsenille
Bill Barberis
Surveillance Agent
Matthias Schoenaerts
Jacky Vanmarsenille
Frank Lammers
Sam Raymond