The Broken Circle Breakdown

2014 • 111 minutes
3.9
733 reviews
83%
Tomatometer
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About this movie

A tattoo artist and a musician fall in love at first sight in this intensely romantic portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, set to an electrifying bluegrass score. In Dutch with English subtitles.

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3.9
733 reviews
Peter Woodbury
3 March 2014
Very real characters that draw you into their lives. Moves from a romance to a couple dealing with the illness of their daughter and how the two of them manage their feelings. The film has a very spiritual overtone with the music and the character development. She, moves towards a more mystical view of life while he struggles with his beliefs that there is no God and no afterlife. But the film does a nice job respecting the characters and letting them play out their growth in very believable and approachabl
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Timothy McCullough
7 February 2014
This was a good movie. I would give it 6 stars if I could. This is a very realistic story, of a very tragic and beautiful couple in Belgium. But, the Ballad of Alabama & Monroe will certainly leave you believing in love, at its core. And then bring you right back into reality. I will have to come back to this movie, but I will have to give it some time, to let my heart strings heal.
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Collin Kornhaus
10 July 2015
The music paired with the story of these two really goes quite nicely and I challenge you to watch this alone and not have a single tear roll from your eyes. It most definitely can make you feel their pain and imagine how indifference could affect your own relationships.
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