In Malines, in Belgian Flanders, poems ring out. Contrary to an essentialist view of the literary text, Robin Vanbesien’s film has us hear the poems whilst showing us the context in which they originated. Their history, first of all: the poems were written in the Rzoezie centre, set up in...

If you have to return home, if you have to inescapably and deliciously find the landscape of your childhood, it is because looking for the trace of time elsewhere is pointless. The ambit of this lesson (“Home is when you feel time”, we heard in When the Persimmons Grew, the...