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Caught in A Web of Love

TOTO LE HEROS

Directed and Written by Jaco Van Dormael

Doesn't every child sometimes feel like an orphan? In the dark night of the crib, didn't we imagine we were kidnapped by Gypsies or abandoned to the wolves? A child's bleak isolation and his need to find a haven in fantasy are the mind's first defense mechanisms. In Jaco Van Dormael's rich and rewarding Belgian film, young Thomas Van Hasebroeck (Thomas Godet) has such fears and daydreams. He believes he was switched at birth with Alfred, the boy next door. And he has created an alter ego, a secret agent named...

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