🎬 Pierre (1976)

Jan Decorte | 1976 | BE | 90’ | EN subtitles

Theater director Jan Decorte’s first feature film spans a day and a night in the lonely life of a Brussels municipal employee. Pierre lives with his mother in an old-fashioned house in a declining working-class neighborhood. Every morning, Pierre takes the tram to work at city hall, where he listens to his colleagues’ jokes during his lunch break. His only hope of escaping his boredom and frustrations lies with a girl from the gymnastics club. One evening, when his mother is out, he invites her over to his place.

“One person is an inscrutable mystery to another. The ultimate meaning and motives behind most of the actions a person takes remain hidden from him. What, then, of knowledge—of the possibility of knowing another person’s motives? Should we not question the very existence of motives?” — Jan Decorte