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Dreamcatchers

2013 · 63 min

A warm, low-key documentary that follows dreamers chasing a scrappy passion, mixing gentle humour with quiet melancholy.

Directed by
Cédric Bourgeois, Xavier Seron
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Salvatore Bellomo, Eddie Dark, Jean Le Boucher
Overview
A group of trainee wrestlers spurred on by the energy of Salvatore Bellomo (age 60) trains relentlessly in the back room of a café in the Borinage district (former mining region in Belgium). Tarzan, the Gigolo, Andynamite, Priscilla, La Rage, Eddie Dark... they all dream of becoming professional wrestlers, like their teacher. Salvatore fought with top wrestlers for more than 30 years, particularly within the prestigious WWF. Today, he has decided to bring his students to the U.S to follow the traces of his past. Waiting for the big day, they live out their passion together, sometimes taking foolish risks to satisfy the local audience and lay out their future.

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Directed by
Cédric Bourgeois, Xavier Seron
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Salvatore Bellomo, Eddie Dark, Jean Le Boucher
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • found family
  • work
  • identity
  • friendship
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • documentary
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour4
Realism9
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Cédric Bourgeois, Xavier Seron
Written by
Xavier Seron, Cédric Bourgeois
Starring
Salvatore Bellomo, Eddie Dark, Jean Le Boucher
Runtime
63 min
Country
Belgium
Languages
French

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