Here's one of the absolute best of the nineties if you want my opinion on it. Elderly Thomas sits in a dilapidated old folks' home plotting how he can end his life right. To understand his plan, we must visit his childhood, learn how a loss of everything important to him during this stage made him conclude he is a worthless individual. Told via flashback, little Thomas (Thomas Godet), roughly ten, is left fatherless by way of an accident, has a serious attachment to his older sister (Sandrine Blancke) which ends in tragedy, fantasizes he is really the son of his well-to-do next door neighbors, that their child, Alfred (Hugo Harold Harrison), belongs to his parents. In adulthood, the torment continues, Thomas still coveting Alfred and his possessions. Will he manage to get revenge, murder his rival before his own life ends? Directed by Jaco van Dormael, who was a circus clown before turning director, Toto The Hero is one of the most beautiful, powerful displays of emotion to hit the screen and includes the most incredible uses of cross-cutting to ever be found in a film. Funny, sad, highly original and definitely moving. Not to be missed!

Warning (rated PG-13): adult themes; sexual themes; violence; brief nudity; brief profanity.

1991; aka Toto le heros; in French with English subtitles; 94 minutes; Thomas Godet, Sandrine Blancke, Hugo Harold Harrison, Karim Moussati, Damien Delaunoy, Maxime Verspecht, Leopold Verlaine-Corbion, Melodie Delaunoy, Nicholas Duvauchel, Jo De Backer, Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Didier Ferney, Peter Bohlke, Pascal Duquenne, Didier De Neck.