Veerle Baetens and Johan Heldenbergh in "The Broken Circle Breakdown." (Tribeca Films) If you do a Google Image search for "The Broken Circle Breakdown," you get lots of pictures of a happy young ...

Bluegrass music and films in the Flemish language are not usually thought of in the same breath, but “The Broken Circle Breakdown” is determined to marry them. The result, not surprisingly, is ...

In “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” Elise (Veerle Baetens) softly sings the bluegrass song “Wayfaring Stranger,” with its lyric about a bright land where “there’s no sickness, toil or danger”; her voice ...

"The Broken Circle Breakdown," like the bluegrass music girding it, has a way of evoking any number of emotions. It is at turns sweet, romantic, funny and heartbreaking. More than anything, though, it ...

Ups and downs are constantly juxtaposed in "The Broken Circle Breakdown," a bluegrass-infused Flemish meller about two lovers who lose their little daughter to cancer. Inspired by a stage performance ...

Bluegrass music and films in the Flemish language are not usually thought of in the same breath, but “The Broken Circle Breakdown” is determined to marry them. The result, not surprisingly, is ...

Is bluegrass music big in Belgium? Not yet. But "Broken Circle Breakdown," Belgium's foreign-language Oscar submission, has attracted European converts to the Americana sound by framing its sad story ...

If you see just one musical/drama hybrid about a French-speaking family dealing with the devastating illness of a child, I’d go with “Declaration of War,” not this week’s “The Broken Circle Breakdown.

If you like your love stories served with a harsh dose of reality, look no further than Felix Van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown. The Dutch romantic drama (and Academy Award nominee for Best ...