Familie review " Milo Rau's soulful hymn to life on the brink of death
NTGent, Ghent, BelgiumAn acting family play the members of a family about to take their own lives in this unnerving and heartbreaking celebration of the ordinary It is a dark winter's night in Belgium, a country where the suicide rate has been called "dismally high". Suicide is an awkward subject, but director Milo Rau is not one to shy away from society's ugly corners. Mesmerising and alarming, Familie completes a t…