Directed by Christophe Van Rompaey, the film tells the story of a Belgium housewife named Matty (Barbara Sarafian) struggling to keep her life together after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Although the break with her husband isn’t clean, she still clings to her hopes that he will get through his mid-life crisis and come back to her. One day, she has a minor fender-bender in a grocery store parking lot with a truck driver named Johnny (Jurgen Delnaet) and what starts as a passionate hate for each other begrudgingly turns into something else, something Matty isn’t sure she wants, needs or deserves. The story is complicated, as all great romances are, and Von Rompaey does a great job making it interesting to watch unfold. Delnaet is excellent as Johnny, the truck driver whose reputation as a lady’s man has a dark side he’s trying to hide, and Johan Heldenbergh is perfect as Matty’s husband Werner, an art school teacher battling his fear of growing old and unsuccessful as an artist in the only way he knows how, by seducing one of his students. The film really belongs to Sarafian, though. Her portrayal of Matty is endlessly fascinating to watch whether she’s railing at the crappy way the world is treating her or seductively smiling at the rare chance she may have to be happy again. Like the two men in her live, you can’t help but fall in love with her.
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