First-time Belgian feature director Robin Pront starts out with what looks like an absorbing family crime drama. Kenny (Kevin Janssens) is an angry, abusive guy who gets out of prison after four years for robbery; his brother Dave (Jeroen Perceval), who did the job with him but managed to get away from the crime scene, can’t bear to confess that he has been having an affair with his girlfriend, Sylvie (Veerle Baetens) while he was inside. Morose Kenny broods about their happy childhood holidays in the Ardennes, but then they have to visit this remote region when, halfway through, the film takes a sudden, meaningless lurch into crazy Belgian-gothic territory – a sudden stab at Tarantino/Coens black comedy that the movie has done nothing to earn. There’s even some business with escaped ostriches, a very unconvincing and secondhand bit of surrealism. A disappointment.
