Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some extraordinary people and find themselves in ditto situations.
Acting
Lanners and Adde's wordless chemistry is everything.
Cinematography
Belgian industrial wasteland never looked so beautiful.
Writing
Dialogue so sparse it feels improvised, every word lands.
Director
Bouli Lanners
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bouli Lanners shot this in just 24 days with a skeleton crew, using his own vintage Chevrolet as the co-star.
This film helped spark a Belgian cinema renaissance—'Eldorado' premiered at Cannes and proved walloon filmmakers could do deadpan melancholy as well as the Scandinavians.
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