Toto the Hero (1991)
Directed by Jaco Van Dormael
80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.
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Writer-director Jaco Van Dormael (“Toto the Hero”) spins flashbacks and time-lapse photography, stunning montages, whirling, circling cameras and stunning underwater, deep space and Martian landscape photography into a film that is as intentionally opaque as it is overlong.
Belgian filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael knows all about the many-worlds hypothesis, which implicitly informs his best-known movie, 1991’s Toto The Hero, and is the explicit motor for his long-delayed third feature, Mr. Nobody.
This storytelling complexity is not new for Van Dormael, who helped make his name on the world stage with 1991’s Toto the Hero, which also told the story of a man’s life in flashbacks that weren’t always accurate.