Left Bank (Linkeroever) (Belgium)
The Story:
Marie (Eline Kuppens) is a dedicated track athlete. One day, she suddenly collapses due to an infection in her immune system, and is forced to rest.
Finding it impossible to stay cooped up at home with her mother (Sien Eggers), an ageing hippy type who runs a health food store, Marie spontaneously decides to move in with Bobby (Matthias Schoenaerts), an archer and used car salesman she met at the athletics park.They make love and Marie, living a life of not having to worry about what she eats, drinks, smokes or does for the first time, falls for Bobby.
Maria soon moves into his flat in Left Bank district of the Belgian port town of Antwerp
(where exiles and lepers used to live in medieval times). The neighbours are strange. She suffers from morning sickness, or is it something else? After injuring her knee when she goes for a jog (against doctor’s orders), experiencing unsettling dreams, and discovering Bobby’s previous tenant had disappeared, she begins to realise that all is not quite right in her world, or her body. She seeks the truth with the help of Dirk (Tom De Wispelaere), the boyfriend of the vanished young woman.
Then Marie starts to uncover the secrets of the building, she discovers a dark and ancient side to the Left Bank district, and a secret society linked to witchcraft.
Starring:
Matthias Schoenaerts, Eline Kuppens, Sien Eggers, Tom De Wispelaere
Directed By:
Pieter Van Hees
Release:
2008
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