Senne Rouffaer Movies

One man's post-breakup trauma is played for low-key laughs in this comedy-drama. Jorvis (Stefan Perceval) is a postal worker in his mid-twenties whose world falls apart when his girlfriend gives him his walking papers. Depressed and aimless, Jorvis takes a room in a run-down hotel and spends his days drifting about Brussels, not sure what (if anything) he wants to do with his life. Jorvis falls out of contact with his friends, but crosses the path of a doctor (Senne Rouffaer) after finding his credit card, and makes the acquaintance of Luzie (Stafanie Bodien), a teenage girl who has run away from home. Verboden Te Zuchten was directed and written by Alex Stockman; it was his first feature. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

In this relentlessly grim autobiographical drama, the director's brother suffers a painful and gruesome death as a result of an accident incurred while performing in a gorilla suit at a carnival after someone threw a lighted match at him. The director's father then dies a long, painful and lingering death from cancer, at which point his mother goes to live in housing for the elderly. When she gets sick, she can't find a doctor with the decency to make her final days acceptable to her, so the filmmaker wryly speaks of her (in her lingering condition) as "less dead than the others." ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this well-executed political thriller, some covert operations are going on that accidentally involve a Dutch trucker who realizes that an identity switch has led to murder. Loe Wolff (Peter Tuinman), a divorced father whose ex-family lives in New York, drives a truck in a dead-end job and sees no immediate relief to his dull life. When he gambles away some money that belongs to his boss, he tries to sell one of the trucks so he can hop a plane to New York -- and is caught by the very boss he wants to escape. Instead of condemning him, the boss asks if Loe would trade his passport for that of another man, and if so, then his transgression will be overlooked. It seems a Hungarian has to be smuggled out of his country, and Loe's passport would do the trick. The trucker agrees, but later discovers that his truck has been demolished in an accident and its driver (with Loe's passport) was burnt beyond recognition. Instead of dropping the subject, Loe starts to investigate and along the way, meets Anna (Monique Van De Ven), an attractive woman bored with her life. One narrow escape follows another, challenging Loe's resolve to continue investigating. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Mathias (Yves Montand) is a Flemish professor who takes a vacation when the university students go on strike. He decides he will visit his mistress Anne (Anouk Aimee) to get away from the social and political upheaval. He finds that Anne has embraced the social causes despite an illness that could lead to her death. In a surrealistic scene, the two argue before Mathias boards a train. He meets Anne there, but the two are unable to communicate and she eventually vanishes. Mathias and two other strangers wander into a foggy rural area where they encounter revelers who dance and speak a strange language. It seems the train has wrecked and his girlfriend is dead, but the dreamlike expressionisms that flash forward and backward play tricks with the time and sequence of events. Soon Mathias and Anne are off to London, but the time period is unclear in this symbolic but unevenly scripted feature. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

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. ~ Yuri German, Rovi