De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (1965)
André Delvaux
-Vrh belgijanske kinematografije,bergmanovski elementi,cista psihologija...A schoolteacher falls for one of his young students. She grows to become a famous actress, while he begins to lose his sanity.
Received with a combination of bewilderment and outright derision upon its initial release, André Delvaux’s first feature film has undergone a critical reevaluation over the years and is now regarded as one of the seminal works of Belgian cinema. Adapted from a novel by Flemish writer Johan Daisne, this is a story about Govert Miereveld (Senne Rouffaer), a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran (Beata Tyszkiewicz), whom he loses touch with after her graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, and the shock of the experience deeply affects his mental balance. He finds out — or he believes so — that Fran has become a popular singer. He arranges to meet her to finally reveal his feelings. The film is decidedly ambiguous about the tragic denouement that follows, suggesting that it might be a figment of the protagonist’s disturbed mind
The film director André Delvaux was known as “the godfather of the Belgian film industry”, having put his small country on the film map after his first feature film, The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short, won international acclaim in 1965. His works often mingled realism and fantasy in a style labelled “magic realism”. Though his films tended to find more favour with critics than public, he had great success with such titles as Un soir, un train (One Night . . . a Train, 1968) and Rendez-vous à Bray (Rendezvous in Bray, 1971).
