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The Belgian Wave (2023)

Dec 13, 2023 Comedy
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60%
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60%

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This movies examines a period in modern Belgian history which is as heavily mocked as it is revered: the wave of UFO sightings recorded at the end of the 80s.

Jérôme Vandewattyne
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Jérôme Di Egidio
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Kamal Messaoudi
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A review by Brent Marchant
Written on March 10, 2024

In 1989-90, the skies over Belgium were filled with unidentified flying objects on an ongoing basis, prompting the incident to become known as “the Belgian UFO wave.” Not long after it began, journalist Marc Vaerenbergh (Dominique Rongvaux) began investigating the event in depth, speaking with countless civilian and military witnesses. He stayed on the story until he suddenly and mysteriously vanished (presumably for knowing too much), a disappearance that was never officially solved. Thirty years later, however, a pair of amateur sleuths – including Marc’s drugged-out godson (Karim Barras) and an actress/would-be journalist (Karen De Paduwa) – seek to reopen the case to find out what actually happened. The result is a wacky, wild, trippy, substance-laced road trip tale that incl...

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