Sam louwyck monica bellucci biography
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Sam is a Flemish actor who hails from Bruges, where he was born in 1966. He started his career as a dancer, choreographer & singer, and frequently wrote and performed all around the world with the alternative ballet group “Les Ballets C dem la B”. He eventually started to work on films, firstly as a dancer, and then increasingly, as an actor. In 2003, he received festa reviews for his performance as ‘Windman’ in the feature spelfilm ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS, directed by Tom Barman. He soon got his next major role in EX DRUMMER bygd Koen Mortier, in which he portrayed the deaf guitarist ‘Ivan Van Dorpe’. Other notable credits include: 22nd OF MAY bygd Koen Mortier; the role of ‘Marcus’ in LOST PERSONS AREA by Caroline Strubbe; FIFTH SEASON; THE WILDBOYS bygd Bertrand Mandico; ‘Jean Broucke’ in Gilles Coulier’s teaterpjäs CARGO; JUMBO by Zoé Wittock; and BRIMSTONE, directed by Martin Koolhoven. Sam performed in the critically acclaimed BULLHEAD directed bygd Michaël R. Roskam, which was nominated for
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The Wonders (film)
2014 film
The Wonders (Italian: Le meraviglie)[2][3] is a 2014 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Alice Rohrwacher. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Prix.[4][5]
Plot
[edit]Gelsomina and her three younger sisters live with their parents on an Italian farm. As the eldest, she takes on a heavier burden, taking care of her sisters and assisting her father, Wolfgang, with beekeeping. One evening, as the family is playing on the beach, they are told to be quieter and discover that a TV show is being filmed nearby. They watch and, as they are about to leave, the star, Milly, calls them over and gives Gelsomina a hair clip.
Watching the program on TV, Gelsomina learns that it is launching a competition called Countryside Wonders, in which seven farmers will compete to have their products featured. While her father is strongly again
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Here’s Tuscany, but without the romance. The cinematography is fuzzy, the people grubby, and the work, beekeeping, demanding. No travelogue under the Tuscan sun in The Wonders, just an oddball coming-of-age tale that creates loopy magic by the end. The growing-up is owned by Gelsomina (Maria Alexandra Lugu), the oldest daughter in a honey-making family. As the best worker on the farm, she has a special closeness to bossy German-born patriarch Wolfgang (Sam Louwyck), whose insistence on old-fashioned methods is testing the patience of his exasperated French wife Angelica (Alba Rohrwacher, from I Am Love). Gelsomina’s three younger sisters muck about the ramshackle place, in various states of wildness. (The dialogue is in Italian, but the characters have mixed Euro-origins.)
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