The Sexual Life of the Belgians
1994 · 85 MIN · IMDB 5.7 · 671 VOTES · DIR. Jan Bucquoy
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 694 lines
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00:01:06 My mother had nice tits.
00:03:21 Jerome, do something with that dog.
00:05:47 Let's go, Martha.
00:08:04 I wondered how they could have made a baby.
00:12:08 When you grow up, you'll be a famous author.
00:15:46 Always going inside. With all this fresh air.
00:18:50 Ginger Leon pulled her knickers off.
00:21:17 Dirty knickers!
00:25:19 Mia, 16.
00:29:17 I'm waiting for Pirana. - Me too.
00:33:37 Herman J. Claes, writer.
00:35:55 I was a member of the revolutionary avant-garde.
00:37:55 There's nothing to insist. She's too young.
00:41:07 in thought and deed.
00:44:31 I swear I'm alone. It's the heater you can hear.
00:47:21 Listen, Therese, I'm with two great chicks.
00:51:48 Shit, it's Tony's gang.
00:55:51 FOR SALE
00:59:21 He went on and on about sexual freedom.
01:03:35 And I started meat again. - Closing time!
01:06:19 And that I was emotionally paralysed.
01:09:42 of Kafka
01:11:45 I live in bars, I can't do housework
01:14:35 as the key to our beatitude.