Family man Govert Miereveld is a teacher at a girls' school, secretly in love with his pupil Fran. One day she disappears and his fancy becomes an obsession.
“Want de literator is niets menselijks vreemd en de film, als de meest realistische, de meest verwarrende magisch-realistische kunst, heeft een werkelijkheid van de tweede graad geschapen waarover de literator zal schrijven als uit een reeds een eerste maal gepuurde levenssubstantie: ze is leven
In Antwerp during and after the Nazi occupation, a young woman, Lieve, is torn between her love for two men with opposite ideals: her Flemish nationalist husband Adriaan (Rutger Hauer), who goes off to fight with the German troops on the Eastern front, and a wounded French resistance
An author tells the background of one of her novels to a young filmmaker. The love story of the novel and the passion between the two artists interwine in a magic realistic style.
“Benvenuta is a film whose photography really struck me.”
André Delvaux's final feature film, based on the novel L'oeuvre au noir (Het hermetisch zwart/The Abyss) by Belgian-born novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, tells the story of Zeno, a doctor and alchemist whose quest for knowledge takes him around 16th-century Europe.