In yet another award associated
with the Flemish film The Broken
Circle Breakdown, co-star Veerle
Baetens was last week awarded
the Best Actress Award at the
Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
“This is really fantastic,” she said.
“I’m very happy that I was chosen
for this role … I also hope to be in
the US soon to support the film.”
The film also won Best Screenplay
at the prestigious festival.
How do you think citizens
living in Flanders centuries
ago were introduced to the
finest of paintings? How did they get
acquainted with the monumental
frescoes of Raphael in the Vatican,
Bruegel’s series of The Seven Virtues
and The Seven Deadly Sins, or Rogier
van der Weyden’s “Descent from
the Cross”, hanging somewhere in a
private castle owned by Philip II of
Spain?
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