The Belgian directing duo discuss how how they translated Paolo Coginetti’s novel into cinematic terms, their approach to music, and more.
The film is a meditative, slow crescendo of wounded feelings and quiet epiphanies.
A few too many on-the-nose needle drops make Beautiful Boy play like a schmaltz-infused music-video-cum-alarmist-anti-drug-PSA.
Felix Van Groeningen’s film owes more than a debt to the unwieldy narrative schematics of Susanne Bier’s narratives.
Felix van Groeningen’s film embraces its fair share of schmaltz and nostalgia.
It certainly would have been nice if Steve at least threw a piece of steak at Sky in order to liven things up a bit.