058: Mr Nobody (2009) & Toto the Hero (1991): A Mini Excellent Adventure with Guest Dr Jamie Steele

In this Mini Excellent Adventure, Ellen is joined by special guest Dr Jamie Steele, Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Bath Spa University, to explore two distinctive visions of time, memory, and identity in Belgian cinema: Jaco Van Dormael’s Mr Nobody and Toto the Hero.

Together they discuss how both films approach time travel not through machines or paradoxes, but through memory, imagination, and the shifting perspective of a life remembered.

Dr Jamie Steele is the author of Francophone Belgian Cinema (Edinburgh University Press) and writes widely on French-language cinema, transnational film culture, and Belgian filmmaking. Alongside his academic work, Jamie curates and hosts the Peacock Cinema Podcast, featuring conversational discussions and guest insights connected to films screened at the Peacock Cinema in Dunfermline.