The Dardennes discuss where the film fits in with their work at large.
The Dardennes don’t make room for kindness in the world of Tori and Lokita.
The Dardennes maintain a distance from Ahmed as a way of celebrating their refusal to reduce him to any easy psychological bullet points.
Many of the selections at this year’s festival were genre films, or, at least, exhibited notable genre-adjacent elements.
The brothers discuss the hot-button issues at the film’s center and their unique filmmaking approach.
This is a left-footed and clumsily insistent work, exposing the worst aspects inherent to the Dardennes’ style.
For the Dardennes, this is typical moral-message territory, which they approach too deliberately.
A gorgeous presentation that also provides unmissable, revelatory insights into its creation, straight from the Dardennes’ mouths.
Marion Cotillard refuses easy characterization, conveying a haunted vision of courage in the face of almost certain oblivion.
The film is one of the Dardennes least morally nuanced films to date.
Minimalist in its aesthetics and soundtrack, quiet and deliberate in its plot, but nonetheless familiar—endearing and a vital addition to the small but growing Tibetan cinema.
The Kid with a Bike reconfirms Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s reputation as masters of the modern class drama.
Bwakaw acknowledges the human spirit’s uncanny power to heal even the most traumatizing wounds.
La Promesse would be important enough if it was merely Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s break-out film, but it’s also one of their best.
The Dardennes’ story of survival and relentless persistence burns with the kind of immediacy that will make it forever relevant.
Terence, meet Terence.
The latest film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne left me speechless.
Cyril’s story is a tragically real one with symbolic overtones, and it’s one that’s brought to painfully wrenching life.
Mise-en-scène choices, improvised pietàs, and the leading lady’s driving arrangements were some of the topics of our discussion.
The film locates the dark enchantment in characters discovering themselves during their most despairing moments.