Our City
2014 · 1h 24m
Skip it. 'Our City' sounds like it's reaching for something poetic about Brussels' multicultural soul, but a 5.0 IMDb score suggests it misses the mark—landing somewhere between pretentious and tedious. Unless you're a die-hard Brussels documentary completist, your time is better spent elsewhere.
Plot
This is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by construction workers, and animated by office people. But there, in the narrow spaces just beyond the reach of bureaucracy, lies the Brussels that still breathes. You can hear its multicultural heart beating and see the traces of all the other cities, the ones each person carries within him/herself. All of us together add up to create the complex body and dissonant identity of Our City.