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TRIPPING

Today's movie was

Eldorado (2008)

This is a weird little road trip / buddy movie with some nice anti-Hollywood turns.

A kind of ne'er do well finds a pathetic housebreaker / drug addict in his house and, unable to detach, takes him back home.

Hence the buddies and, since home is near the border (we are in Belgium), hence the road trip.

There is a kind of absurdist twist to their encounters. A nudist named Alain Delon. Like that.

In the middle of the trip, things take a U-turn from funny to sad and tragic. But not too tragic.

I liked it. So did some other people. It won a prize at Cannes. The reviewer at the link pours on the symbolism and all if you have an appetite for that. Mostly, I just watch the movies.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

Labels: film, films