El tiempo del amor

I didn't have a lot of expectations about this one but I somehow knew I had to watch this one while in Belgium. So it exceeded those few I had, multiple times. The main character is a woman who, like all of us, is desperate for being loved; she is broken by war and its aftermath; she makes her ends meet and takes basic care of her little boy, or does she? Then she meets François, skillfully played by Vincent Lacoste, and then this story of several generations is gradually revealed to the viewer with all its subtleties and complexities. When the film ended, it took me a while to return to the world, to those rainy streets of Brussels. The world that still chooses to be at war, and maim itself, and hurt itself.