The Sexual Life of the Belgians

Release Date: 1994-01-28

Overview: Jan Bucquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels. There he meets Greta, bartender at a Bohemian cafe, who teaches him the Kama Sutra, the naked Esther, who reads him stories, and Thérèse, his wife for three years. They split after two children; he moves to a small flat, writes pornography to pay the bills, works sporadically on a novel, espouses anarchism, and meets more women. His self-confidence grows.

Rating: 5.37 / 10

Cast

Jean-Henri Compère

as Jan Bucquoy

Noe Francq

as Jan Bucquoy as a child

Isabelle Legros

as Noella Bucquoy (mother)

Sophie Schneider

as Therese

Jacques Druaux

as Jerome Bucquoy (father)