Hellhole

A quiet, heavy drift through disconnected lives in a wounded city, asking more questions than it answers.

Directed by

Bas Devos

Genres

Drama

Starring

Alba Rohrwacher, Hamsa Belarbi, Willy Thomas

Overview

Three starkly different people deal with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Brussels in May 2016. A Flemish doctor, whose son is a fighter jet pilot on a mission in the Middle East, is forced to confront his loneliness. A young man from Algerian descent is asked by his brother to do him a deceivingly simple favor. An Italian woman, who works in the heart of the European Institutions, is slowly losing control under the pressure of her demanding life. The same question that seems to haunt the city looms over their lives : where do we go from here?

How it feels

Melancholic, tense, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Isolation, identity, family, grief

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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