A Dog of Flanders (1999)
Director:
Kevin Brodie
Tagline:
« It’s not where you come from. It’s where you’re going. »
Actors:
Jehan
Nello
Young Nello
Michel
Anna
Rating:
(1’054 votes)
(1’054 votes)
Quotes:
« Nicholas Cogez: Aloise, come on. Your mother's been looking for you.
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« Young Aloise: Coming Papa.
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« Nicholas Cogez: [upong seeing Aloise] Look at you! Who's been painting your face, love?
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« Young Nello: Good evening, Master Cogez.
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« Nicholas Cogez: William. Nello. Say buh-bye William
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« Young Aloise: Buh bye, William
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« Nicholas Cogez: Say buh bye Nello.
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« Young Aloise: Buh bye, Nello.
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« Nicholas Cogez: Buh bye.
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« Young Nello: Bye Aloise!
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« Nicholas Cogez: [calling out] Aloise! Aloise! Aloise! Answer me! Aloise!
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[Aloise wakes up at the circus grounds, Nicholas spots her and runs up to her]
« Nicholas Cogez: Oh thank God!
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[he hugs her]
« Aloise: [as she hugs her father] I'm sorry, Papa. I fell asleep.
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« Nello: Master Cogez it was all my fault. I wanted to paint her picture…
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« Nicholas Cogez: Do you have even idea how worried we've been, Nello? That's all that matters. If you have any idea.
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[Nello hands him the picture]
« Aloise: Papa, you know it was my fault!
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« Nicholas Cogez: I'll deal with you later. There's one thing I want you to remember, Nello and remember it well. Aloise is our child and not yours and you have no right to keep her out this late. I don't want her anywhere near you as far as today.
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[he drops the picture to the ground and begins to drag Aloise away, she grabs the picture quickly and gives Nello one last look]
« Anna Cogez: Nicholas, what are you going to do?
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« Nicholas Cogez: I'm going to find Nello. I've done that boy a terrible wrong, Anna.
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Trailer:
A Dog of Flanders (1999)
Runtime:100 minutes
Plots:
Heartwarming story about an orphaned boy whose hard life is offset by his love for an abandoned dog, his determination to become a great painter, and his friendship with an artist.
Poor, but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large sturdy dog native to Flanders) and adopt it and nurse it back to health, naming it Patrasche, the middle name of Nello’s mother Mary, who died when Nello was very young. Nello’s mother was a talented artist, and like his mother, he delights in drawing, and his friend Aloise is his model and greatest fan and supporter.
