The cinema of the Dardenne brothers : responsible realism

• Main Author: Mosley, Philip, 1947- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Wallflower Press Book, c2013
• Series: Directors' cuts
• Subjects: Dardenne, Jean-Pierre, > 1951-; Dardenne, Luc, > 1954-; filmoví režiséři > Belgie; filmoví scenáristé > Belgie; film > Belgie; film directors > Belgium; screenwriters > Belgium; film > Belgium; studie; studies
• ISBN: 9780231163286; 978-0-231-16329-3
• Physical Description: vi, 152 s. : il. ; 24 cm

"The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liege-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blen...

Table of Contents:

• Responsible realists
• Cinematic reference points
• The video documentaries, 1974-83 : In the beginning was the resistance; The nightingale's song; When León M.'s boat first sailed down the River Meuse; For the war to end, the walls had to crumble; R ... no longer answers; Lessons from a university on the fly; Look at Jonathan. Jean Louvet, his work
• Foraying into fiction, 1986-92 : Falsch; They're running ... everyone's running; You're on my mind
• Breakthrough : The promise, 1996
• First Palme d'Or : Rosetta, 1999
• Pushing the envelope : The son, 2002
• Second Palme d'Or : The child, 2005
• A minor shift : The silence of Lorna, 2008
• Afterword : The kid with a bike, 2011