Bruno Dumont has a good command of elegant filmmaking ("Humanite" and the early parts of "Flanders" are testimonies of this fact). However, I find his extremely twisted screenplays to drive home his view of life disconcerting. In "Flanders," it is French male soldiers (who are deprived of sex for a while) raping a female enemy soldier on battle lines and events that follow, which are related to that incident. Can Dumont write a screenplay devoid of sex, rape, killings, and their aftermath? In "France" (2022), he showed that he could. I have seen four of Dumont's films and they seem to be variants of the same theme in different locales and circumstances. I look forward to future Dumont films that are more like like "Humanite" and "France."
Review of Flanders
