Desc: De helaasheid der dingen: Directed by Felix van Groeningen. With Kenneth Vanbaeden, Valentijn Dhaenens, Koen De Graeve, Wouter Hendrickx. A thirty-something novelist and impending father looks back on his all-too-formative years in the hapless, alcohol-ridden milieu of his youth in 1980s rural Flanders, Belgium.