The Sexual Life of the Belgians
Overview
Jan Bucquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels. There he meets Greta, bartender at a Bohemian cafe, who teaches him the Kama Sutra, the naked Esther, who reads him stories, and Thérèse, his wife for three years. They split after two children; he moves to a small flat, writes pornography to pay the bills, works sporadically on a novel, espouses anarchism, and meets more women. His self-confidence grows.
La vie sexuelle des Belges
Cast
Jean-Henri Compère
Jan Bucquoy
Noe Francq
Jan Bucquoy as a child
Isabelle Legros
Noella Bucquoy (mother)
Sophie Schneider
Therese
Jacques Druaux
Jerome Bucquoy (father)
Sacha Jacques
Jan Bucquoy as a baby
Boris Bucquoy
Jan Bucquoy age 2
Pascale Binnert
Ariane Bucquoy
Michel Angely
Greengrocer
Michele Shor
Aunt Martha
Stefan Lernous
Eddy
Georgette Stulens
Eddy's mother
