The Eighth Day (1996)

Name: The Eighth Day
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Released: 1996

Documented locations: 3
Year: 1996
Directed by: Jaco Van Dormael
Original title: Le Huitième Jour
Cities: Walhain, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Watermael-Boitsfort

Drama

Rue Chèvequeue (Walhain)
Walhain, Belgium
The scene : The scene related to Luis Mariano, the sung idol that Georges revives.
Route de La Hulpe (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve)
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
The scene : Exterior shots of the film, including the scene where Georges insults a truck driver on the Route de La Hulpe.
Watermael-Boitsfort (Bruxelles)
Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium
Residential and green municipality in the southeast of the Brussels-Capital Region.
The scene : Exterior shots of the film.

Approximate position of the locations.

Plot

Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
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The Eighth Day (1996)

Rue Chèvequeue (Walhain)

Route de La Hulpe (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve)

Watermael-Boitsfort (Bruxelles)