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Eldorado

2008 · 1h 25m · TV-MA Comedy, Drama
Directed by Bouli Lanners

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Overview

Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some extraordinary people and find themselves in ditto situations.

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71%
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Fresh

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby they're not. But director-actor Bouli Lanners and costar Fabrice Adde are on a comedy road to Eldorado, even if it takes place in a flat patch of mostly deserted Belgian landscape rather than some Hollywood Shangri-La.

Thomasine Berg, Boston Globe
Fresh

Eldorado was named best European film in the directors' fortnight last year at Cannes.

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

Avoids a formulaic ending, reflecting instead on the impermanence of human connections and the inescapable baggage of the self.

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Eldorado is fueled by the chemistry between Lanners and Adde. They're so good together, they should make a sequel.

V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh

A road movie that poignantly juggles absurdism and melancholy.

Stephen Holden, New York Times

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