The real-life Belgian artist Delvaux, and film director Kumel, inspire and motivate most of the men in this thriller, who range from slightly pervy to deeply sick, with a few merely strange guys in between. They find the Internet very useful. Women, on the other hand, get filmed, watched, abducted, sometimes killed.
This Antwerp is not a Gothic tourist gem, but a darkly dysfunctional, alienating place presided over by the spirit of its own Fred West, the child killer Dutroux.
