Constantly you worry that the movie will collapse under the strain of more raw emotions but it rarely falters and never lapses into the predictable or the sentimental.

It's a film about a couple whose tumultuous relationship is severely challenged, and the performances are excellent.

Where the Coen brothers gently mocked th[e] music in O Brother Where art Thou?, this plucky little Belgian film reconnects that music to the sorrows that produced it. Just brilliant.

The Broken Circle Breakdown never pulls punches when it comes to telling the complex realities of life that exist in the films story.