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Here (2024)

Here (2024)

NR

Two strangers share a fleeting connection in this subtle and delicate drama

7.0

Movie

Belgium
Dutch, French, Mandarin
Drama, Romance
2024
BAS DEVOS
Cédric Luvuezo, Liyo Gong, Saadia Bentaïeb
84 min

TLDR

Oh, to make soup to share with your friends.

What it's about

Planning to move back home to his native Romania, construction worker Stefan plans one last get-together to give soup as a farewell gift for his friends and family. However, his car breaks down, and while waiting for his car to be fixed, he meets Belgian-Chinese doctorate student Shuxiu.

The take

You would think that a movie about making soup for your friends and studying moss would be a strange mix, but there’s just something so beautifully delicate about the way writer-director Bas Devos links the lives of two immigrants in Brussels, with the contrast between the length of their stay, the things they make, and how long their work would last. It’s a slow burn connection, and with the pending move, it’s a fleeting one, but the runtime is just right to capture the quiet grace of their connection, the one they share as strangers in a stopping point from different places. Here is subtle and transcendent.

What stands out

Is it just me, or does Stefan Gota kinda look like Matthias Schoenaerts?

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