Fair enough. It wasn't exactly the first movie from this list I intended to see anyway.



I can tell. Maybe I should give it another chance, then.

Oh, close enough to perfectly understood, in the respective parts of the country, except perhaps for heavy dialects that would likely not be understood by all French/Dutch viewers themselves either. (This fact notwithstanding, Flemish television has taken to subtitling Dutch television programmes (and the other way around, but that makes more sense), but then again it has also taken to subtitling Flemish television programmes in which anyone speaks anything remotely resembling dialect.)

Anyway, yeah, we do have a foreign language knowledge advantage, and even a native language advantage of sorts for Dutch and French movies respectively. It's more a matter of popularity and what is shown, I guess. The Walloons see a fair amount of French movies, but in Flanders really nearly everything is American. In my local movie theatre, there's usually ten to twelve movies playing at any given time, and eight to ten of those will be American, with the rest either Flemish (increasingly so of late, admittedly), French/Walloon or from other origins. Rarely Dutch. There was another theatre with a more arthouse choice of movies (if you can call it arthouse; it kept playing Amélie once a week for literally a year straight), which obviously means more non-English, but it's closed now due to lack of visitors, so well...

Yeah. But then you're not really an average Briton, either. Even if I have no idea how your foreign languages are, now that you mention it...