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{{short description|Belgian film directors, screenwriters and film producers}}
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| name = Dardenne brothers | name = Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
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| caption = The Dardenne Brothers at the ]
| caption = Luc (right) and Jean-Pierre Dardenne in 2015
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Brothers '''Jean-Pierre Dardenne''' (born 21 April 1951 in ]) and '''Luc Dardenne''' (born 10 March 1954 in ]) are a ] filmmaking duo. They ], ] and ] their films together.


Brothers '''Jean-Pierre Dardenne''' {{Post-nominals|country=BE|CMW}} ({{IPA|fr|daʁdɛn|lang}}; born 21 April 1951)<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |title=Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne |url=https://lesfilmsdufleuve.be/en/les-freres-dardenne/ |access-date=22 July 2022 |website=Les Films du Fleuve |archive-date=30 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830204343/https://lesfilmsdufleuve.be/en/les-freres-dardenne/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and '''Luc Dardenne''' {{Post-nominals|country=BE|CMW}} (born 10 March 1954),<ref name="bio"/> collectively referred to as '''the Dardenne brothers''', are a ] filmmaking duo. They ], ], and ] their films together.<ref name="bio"/> They also own the production company ].
The Dardennes began making narrative and documentary films in the late 1970s, but they first came to international attention in the mid-1990s with '']'' (''The Promise''). They won their first major international film prize when '']'' won the ] at the 1999 ]. All their films since have played at the Cannes main competition and won one of the major prizes.


The Dardennes began making narrative and documentary films in the late 1970s. They came to international attention in the mid-1990s with '']'' (''The Promise''). They won their first major international film prize when '']'' won the ] at the 1999 ]. Their work tends to reflect ] themes and points-of-view.
In 2002, Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes for the Dardennes' ']' ("The Son") In 2005, they won the Palme d'Or a second time for their film '']'' (''The Child''), putting them in an elite club of only 6 with the likes of ]. Their film, '']'' (''Lorna's Silence''), won Best Screenplay at the ] and was released in Europe in the fall. Their latest film '']'' premiered In Competition at the ].<ref name="Cannes">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/58041.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Official Selection |accessdate=2011-04-14|work=Cannes}}</ref>


In 2002, Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes for the Dardennes' '']'' (''The Son''). In 2005, they won the Palme d'Or a second time for their film '']'' (''The Child''), putting them in an elite club, at the time, of only seven. Their film, '']'' (''Lorna's Silence''), won Best Screenplay at the ] and was released in Europe in the fall. Their film '']'' won the Grand Prix at the ], received one ] and eight ] nominations.<ref name="Cannes">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/58041.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Official Selection |access-date=14 April 2011 |work=Cannes |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515065818/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/58041.html |archive-date=15 May 2011 }}</ref> Jean-Pierre was the jury president for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the ].<ref name="Cinéfoundation">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readArticlePressRelease/58865.html |title=The Jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Films |access-date=29 March 2012 |work=Cannes Film Festival |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201907/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readArticlePressRelease/58865.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2015, their film '']'' (''Two Days, One Night'') received nine ] nominations (winning three) and one ] for ]. Their 2019 feature '']'' won them the Best Director Award at the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/cannes-2019-belgiums-dardenne-brothers-win-best-director-for-young-ahmed-6702121.html|title=Cannes 2019: Belgium's Dardenne brothers win best director for Young Ahmed|date=26 May 2019|website=Firstpost|language=en|access-date=27 May 2019|archive-date=27 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527120654/https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/cannes-2019-belgiums-dardenne-brothers-win-best-director-for-young-ahmed-6702121.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Their 2022 film '']'' won the 75th Anniversary Prize at the ].<ref name="cannesawards">{{Cite web |title=Jean-Pierre Dardenne - Festival de Cannes |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/artist/jean-pierre-dardenne |access-date=22 July 2022 |website=festival-cannes |archive-date=20 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720201451/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/artist/jean-pierre-dardenne |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Films==
Creators of intensely naturalistic films about lower class life in Belgium, brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have created a body of work since 1996 which places them clearly at the fore of contemporary Belgian cinema and among the world's most critically respected filmmakers as well. With '']'' (''The Promise'') (1996), '']'' (1999), '']'' (''The Son'') (2002), and '']'' (''The Child'') (2005), the Dardennes’ films are stark but modest portrayals of young people at the fringes of society – immigrants, the unemployed, the inhabitants of shelters. Both ''Rosetta'' and ''L’enfant'' were awarded the ] at the ], the only two Belgian films ever to earn the honor.


== Career ==
The Dardennes were born and raised in ] in ], situated in ], the French-speaking region of Belgium, that provides the gritty, postindustrial landscape so omnipresent in many of their films. Jean-Pierre (born in 1951) studied drama while Luc (born three years later) studied philosophy. In 1975 they established Derives, the production company that produced the roughly sixty documentary films they made before branching into feature films. The tone and subject matter of their documentaries reflect much of the same territory the brothers would revisit with their narrative films: Polish immigration, World War II resistance, a general strike in 1960 . Their first two feature films, however, are rarely seen today: ''Falsch'' (1987) and ''Je pense a vous'' (1992), which Luc would later describe as an "unfortunate adventure."
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Creators of intensely naturalistic films about working class life in Belgium, brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have created a notable body of work since 1996. With '']'' (''The Promise'') (1996), '']'' (1999), '']'' (''The Son'') (2002), and '']'' (''The Child'') (2005), the Dardennes' films show young people at the fringes of society – immigrants, the unemployed, the inhabitants of shelters. Both ''Rosetta'' and ''L'Enfant'' were awarded the ] at the ], the only two Belgian films ever to earn the honor.
The Dardennes archieved their first major success with ''La promesse'' (''The Promise'') in 1996. The film is the story of Roger, who operates a tenement that he rents out to immigrant workers with the help of his fifteen year old son Igor. When Hamidou, a laborer from ], dies (as a direct result of Roger's unscrupulousness), Igor takes responsibility for Hamidou's wife and baby. The film, in the words of one critic, "shows us the birth of a consciousness", and its setting – a Western Europe full of entrepreneurs desperate to grab their share of a quickening economy, and foreign laborers even more desperate to taste a small piece of that – is both grim and hopeful. The opportunities the film presents may be more spiritual than material, but this is in keeping with the hardscrabble reality of the Dardennes’ films. In his review of ''La promesse'' ] noted that, "The Dardenne brothers… have confessed to a burden. They believe in hope. They insist that under the frenzy of our world, physical and moral, there is quiet."


The Dardennes were born and raised in ] in ], in ], the French-speaking region of Belgium. Jean-Pierre (born in 1951) studied drama while Luc (born three years later) studied philosophy.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} In 1975 they established Derives, the production company that produced the roughly sixty documentary films they made before branching into feature films. These films covered such topics as Polish immigration, World War II resistance, a general strike in 1960. Their first two feature films, however, are rarely seen today: '']'' (1987) adapted from ], featuring ] and ''Je pense a vous'' (1992). The Dardennes had their first international success with ''La Promesse'' (''The Promise'') in 1996.
With ''Rosetta'' the Dardennes turned their focus to the burdens – philosophical, spiritual, psychological – of unemployment. ], who had never before acted in film and was awarded the Best Actress Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is the title character, a young woman living with her alcoholic mother in a trailer park. The film is about Rosetta's search for purpose and to Rosetta purpose can only be found through work – she makes her way through Seraing's fringes for the most menial of positions; she catches fish in the muddy, murky stream by her trailer park. Her goal is no greater than to be a cook at a waffle stand but "she hurries through as if she would crash through a brick wall in search of a job." Ultimately it isn’t societal forces or a capitalist system that derails Rosetta but her own singular desire. "Rather than personify or dramatize social forces arrayed against her, this Darwinian study suggests that Rosetta's oppression is rooted as much in her internalization of dog-eat-dog capitalism as in her unpitying environment." ''Rosetta'' was the first Belgian film ever to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, coming in ahead of films by ], ], ], and ]. The film's impact wasn’t only cinematic: a labor law designed to protect young workers like Rosetta was passed shortly after the film's release. "’t was pure chance,’ Jean-Pierre insists. ‘There was already a bill going through, and the minister took advantage of our award to call it the Rosetta Law. But we never intended to get laws changed.’ Luc adds: ‘Of course, we always hope our films will speak to people, disturb them, but we never hoped to change the world’."


In 1994, they launched the production company ], which produces all of their films and also films by other European directors such as ], ] and ].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Euro 75: Les Films du Fleuve (Belgium) |url=https://www.screendaily.com/features/the-euro-75-les-films-du-fleuve-belgium/5170476.article |website=] |date=15 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Les Films du Fleuve |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/prodcompany/8577/ |website=] |access-date=6 May 2023}}</ref>
The practice of work is also central to ''Le fils'' (''The Son''), a deceptively simple movie about revenge and redemption. The film, like all of the Dardennes’, seems straightforward enough: Olivier, a carpenter (played by ], who, like Dequenne, earned an acting prize at Cannes), takes on a young man named Francis as an apprentice. Francis is newly released from juvenile detention and Olivier immediately recognizes Francis's name as the boy who murdered his son some years earlier. Francis is unaware of the connection he shares with Olivier, and the Dardennes’ use this asymmetrical relationship to investigate the ideas of forgiveness and vindication. "For all its quasi-documentary materialism, The Son is ultimately a Christian allegory of one man's inchoate desire to return good for evil." In this way ''Le fils'' is something of a departure from the Dardennes’ earlier work: it's not the sort of movie that gets labor legislation named after it. Olivier's carpentry is observed with unstinting and careful detail; it is not a means for sustenence but a means for existence. "It is hardly surprising that the Dardennes put together their naturalist fable with such a fanatical, self-effacing sense of craft. They are obsessed with work in the way that some of their European counterparts are obsessed with sex: the textures and rhythms of manual labor are, for them, at once irreducibly physical and saturated with an almost spiritual significance."


With ''Rosetta'' the Dardennes turned their focus to the burdens – philosophical, spiritual, psychological – of unemployment. ], who had not acted in film before, and was awarded the Best Actress Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is the title character, a young woman living with her alcoholic mother in a trailer park. The film is about Rosetta's search for purpose and to Rosetta purpose can only be found through work – she makes her way through Seraing's fringes for the most menial of positions; she catches fish in the muddy, murky stream by her trailer park. ''Rosetta'' was the first Belgian film ever to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, coming in ahead of films by ], ], ], and ]. The film provided some impetus for a labor law designed to protect young workers like Rosetta shortly after the film's release. "'t was pure chance,' Jean-Pierre insists. 'There was already a bill going through, and the minister took advantage of our award to call it the Rosetta Law. But we never intended to get laws changed.' Luc adds: 'Of course, we always hope our films will speak to people, disturb them, but we never hoped to change the world'."{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
Crimes and occupations again figure prominently in the Dardennes’ fourth film, ''L’Enfant'' (''The Child''), but this time the two are bound up in ways both expected and surprising. After a young woman named Sonia gives birth, she leaves the hospital and finds her apartment has been subletted. She finds Bruno, her equally young boyfriend, the baby's father and a petty thief with no real understanding of fatherhood. He uses the baby as a prop in panhandling and to get a bed for a night in a shelter; he comes into a bit of money and uses it to buy an expensive jacket for Sonia – to match his own. Bruno then makes a decision that seems ghastly and sensational, but as handled by the Dardennes seems matter-of-fact and calm: he sells the baby. We follow Bruno and the child on an excruciatingly long bus trip to the city's outskirts where he will rendezvous with his traffickers – who or what they are is left mostly unsaid. "Like the Dardennes’ close framing and tracking, their use of ambient light and sound, a way of clinging to the character and feeling the moral weight of his actions, even when he does not. That's why it's possible to care about inept, thoughtless Bruno, and care deeply, when at last he, too, feels the gravity." Of course it's not possible for Bruno's efforts to get the baby back not to have ramifications – for himself, for Sonia, for a young accomplice (in one classically "Dardenne" scene, we see Bruno's accomplice, barely a teenager, plotting a crime in work overalls at his vocational school). As for Igor in ''Le fils'', redemption for Bruno is as much a psychological act as a physical one. The film earned the Dardennes the Palme d'Or from Cannes, their second in seven years.


Crimes and occupations again figure prominently in the Dardennes' fourth film, ''L'Enfant'' (''The Child''). The film earned the Dardennes the Palme d'Or from Cannes, their second in seven years. ''L'Enfant'' won the ] in 2005, making directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne fourth-time winners of the award.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
In '']'' (''Lorna's Silence''), starring ] in the title role as Lorna, Luc Dardenne stated, " about a young woman who has every reason to be desperate and who continues to believe that everything is possible. A religious believer of sorts, even if God is dead How can a woman who doesn’t believe in God believe everything is possible? Where does this crazy hope come from? She is strange, out-of-the-ordinary. A fictional character always swims against the tide."


The Dardenne brothers have a regular stable of collaborators (for all of their films the brothers share writing and directing credits), including cinematographer ] and editor ]. ] played Igor in ''La Promesse'', Bruno in ''L'Enfant'', Claudy in ''Le Silence de Lorna'' (''Lorna's Silence''), Guy in ''Le gamin au vélo'' (''The Kid with a Bike''), and Bryan's father in '']'' (''La Fille inconnue''). ], the main character of ''Le fils'', has brief cameos as a detective in ''L'Enfant'' and as a bullying character in "La Fille Inconnue". Like ''Rosetta'''s Emilie Dequenne, ], the seventeen-year-old lead in ''L'Enfant'', was appearing in her first film. Luc Dardenne has described their process of working with actors as follows: "What we do with the actors is also very physical. The day filming begins we do not feel obliged to do things exactly the way they were rehearsed; we pretend that we are starting over from zero so that we can rediscover things that we did before. The instructions we give the actors are above all physical. We start working without the cameraman—just the actors and my brother and me. We walk them through the blocking, first one then the other, trying several different versions. They say but do not act their lines. We do not tell them what the tone of their lines should be; we just say that we will see once the camera is rolling. At this point there is no cameraman, no sound engineer, no lighting. Then we set up all the camera movements exactly and the rhythm of the shot, which is usually a long take. Doing it this way allows us the ability to modify the actors' movements or any small details."{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
"Because of her social situation she is ready to do things that we would not, because we have no need to", Luc Dardenne said in an interview with '']''. "These situations happen to people like her perhaps more than to those living in material comfort. This leads her to have to accept or refuse the death of someone. Nothing can authorise her to do this. The spectator might think, 'Given her situation, we can understand'. But in this case no."<ref> "Reality Bites", December 2008</ref>


The Dardennes often employ handheld cameras and use available light.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} In 2009, they signed a petition in support of director ], who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 ], which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-06-04 |title=Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski - SACD |url=http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604100742/http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-06-04 |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=archive.ph}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shoard |first1=Catherine |author2=Agencies |date=September 29, 2009 |title=Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628013652/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |archive-date=June 28, 2019}}</ref>
Mirroring the consistency of their setting, the Dardenne Brothers maintain a regular stable of collaborators (for all of their films the brothers share writing and directing credits), most notably cinematographer ] and editor ]. ] played both Igor in ''La promesse'' and Bruno in ''L’Enfant'', while ], the main character of ''Le fils'', has a brief cameo as a detective in ''L’Enfant''. Like ''Rosetta'''s Emilie Dequenne, ], the seventeen year old lead in ''L’Enfant'', was appearing in her first film. Luc Dardenne has described their process of working with actors as follows: "What we do with the actors is also very physical. The day filming begins we do not feel obliged to do things exactly the way they were rehearsed; we pretend that we are starting over from zero so that we can rediscover things that we did before. The instructions we give the actors are above all physical. We start working without the cameraman—just the actors and my brother and me. We walk them through the blocking, first one then the other, trying several different versions. They say but do not act their lines. We do not tell them what the tone of their lines should be; we just say that we will see once the camera is rolling. At this point there is no cameraman, no sound engineer, no lighting. Then we set up all the camera movements exactly and the rhythm of the shot, which is usually a long take. Doing it this way allows us the ability to modify the actors’ movements or any small details."


In June 2012, the brothers were invited to join the ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 June 2012 |title=Academy Invites 176 to Membership |url=http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2012/20120629a.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702000236/http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2012/20120629a.html |archive-date=2 July 2012 |access-date=29 May 2022 |publisher=]}}</ref>
The Dardennes often employ handheld cameras and use available light; their films have no musical score or soundtrack.


Their 2014 film '']'' was selected to compete for the ] in the main competition section at the ].<ref name="Cannes2014">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/60533.html |title=2014 Official Selection |access-date=17 April 2014 |work=Cannes |archive-date=18 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018045554/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/60533.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The film received nine nominations at the ], winning three, including ] and ].<ref>{{cite news|title=Magritte: Pluie de nominations pour les Dardenne et Lucas Belvaux|url=http://www.lalibre.be/culture/cinema/magritte-pluie-de-nominations-pour-les-dardenne-et-lucas-belvaux-54ad67193570d587e329a142|access-date=11 January 2015|work=La Libre Belgique|date=7 January 2015|language=fr|archive-date=13 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113005205/http://www.lalibre.be/culture/cinema/magritte-pluie-de-nominations-pour-les-dardenne-et-lucas-belvaux-54ad67193570d587e329a142|url-status=live}}</ref> ] received an ] for her performance in the film, the first Oscar nomination for a Dardenne brothers film.<ref>{{cite news|title=Academy Award nominations for Marion Cotillard and "Song of the Sea"|url=http://www.belga.be/fr/press-release/details-44927/?langpr=EN|publisher=Belga News Agency|date=15 January 2015|access-date=22 July 2022|archive-date=19 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119062617/http://www.belga.be/fr/press-release/details-44927/?langpr=EN|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==References==

In 2014, their body of work was awarded the special prize of the 40th Anniversary of the ] at the Cannes Film Festival.<ref name="juryoecumenique">{{Cite web |title=Hommage à l'oeuvre des Frères Dardenne pour les 40 ans du Jury |url=http://cannes.juryoecumenique.org/actualites/les-videos/2014/article/hommage-a-l-oeuvre-des-freres |website=Jury Œcuménique au Festival de Cannes |date=22 May 2014 |language=fr |access-date=29 May 2022 |archive-date=29 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529063336/http://cannes.juryoecumenique.org/actualites/les-videos/2014/article/hommage-a-l-oeuvre-des-freres |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2016, they released '']'' (''La Fille inconnue''), starring ] as a young doctor who lets the door buzzer of her small clinic go unanswered one evening after work hours and then grows determined to discover the identity of the young woman found dead nearby when the police see from a security tape that she had been the person ringing at the door.<ref name="indiewire2015">{{cite news|title=César Winner Adèle Haenel To Lead Dardenne Brothers Next Film 'The Unknown Girl'|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cesar-winner-adele-haenel-to-lead-dardenne-brothers-next-film-the-unknown-girl-20150423|access-date=30 April 2015|date=23 April 2015|work=]|archive-date=21 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521043527/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cesar-winner-adele-haenel-to-lead-dardenne-brothers-next-film-the-unknown-girl-20150423|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last1=Dardenne|first1=Jean-Pierre|title=The Unknown Girl|date=5 October 2016|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4630550/|last2=Dardenne|last3=Renier|last4=Minnelli|first2=Luc|first3=Jérémie|first4=Louka|access-date=12 January 2017|archive-date=27 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170127001611/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4630550/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Their 2019 film '']'', a film about a Belgian teenager embracing Islamic extremism,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wildbunch.biz/movie/ahmed/|title=Ahmed – Wild Bunch|access-date=25 November 2018|archive-date=26 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126005456/https://www.wildbunch.biz/movie/ahmed/|url-status=live}}</ref> was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and they won the Best Director prize.<ref name="ahmed">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/cannes-film-festival-2019-winners-1203225973/ |title=Bong Joon-ho's ''Parasite'' Wins the Palme d'Or at Cannes |work=Variety |date=25 May 2019 |access-date=25 May 2019 |archive-date=5 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605043110/https://variety.com/2019/film/news/cannes-film-festival-2019-winners-1203225973/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Their 2022 film '']'',<ref>{{Cite web|date=13 January 2021|title=Casting pour le prochain film des frères Dardenne – Cinevox|url=https://www.cinevox.be/fr/casting-pour-le-prochain-film-des-freres-dardenne/|access-date=20 January 2021|language=fr-FR|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122213621/https://www.cinevox.be/fr/casting-pour-le-prochain-film-des-freres-dardenne/|url-status=live}}</ref> was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the ] and won the 75th Anniversary Prize.<ref name="cannesawards"/>

== Filmography ==
=== Features ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! rowspan=2 width="33"| Year
! rowspan=2| Title
! colspan=3| Credited as
! rowspan=2| Notes
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! width=65 |Directors
! width=65 |Screenwriters
! width=65 |Producers
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| align="center" | 1987
| align="left"| ''Falsch''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
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| align="center" | 1992
| align="left"| ''Je pense à vous''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|{{yes}}
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|-
| align="center" | 1995
| align="left"| ''Faute de soleil''
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|
|{{yes}}
|Co-producers
|-
| align="center" | 1996
| align="left"| '']''
| {{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
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|-
| align="center" | 1999
| align="left"| '']''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
| {{yes}}
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|-
| align="center" | 2001
| align="left"| '']''
|
|
| {{yes}}
|Co-producers
|-
| align="center" | 2002
| align="left"| '']''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
| {{yes}}
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|-
| align="center" | 2003
| align="left"| ''The Living World''
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|
| {{yes}}
|Co-producers
|-
| align="center" | 2003
| align="left"| '']''
|
|
| {{yes}}
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|-
| align="center" | 2003
| align="left"| ''The Sun Assassinated''
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=== Documentaries ===
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| align="left"| ''R... ne répond plus''
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| align="left"| ''Leçons d'une université volante''
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| align="left"| ''Regarde Jonathan, Jean Louvet, son œuvre''
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== Honours, awards and nominations ==
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by the Dardenne brothers}}
* 2005: Grand-Cross of the ]<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 July 2005 |title=La grand-croix aux Dardenne |url=https://www.lesoir.be/art/la-grand-croix-aux-dardenne_t-20050711-000UE9.html |website=] |access-date=22 July 2022 |archive-date=22 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722143640/https://www.lesoir.be/art/la-grand-croix-aux-dardenne_t-20050711-000UE9.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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== Citations ==
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== Sources ==
* Luc Dardenne ''Au dos de nos images'', éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2005 (a philosophical diary about the making of his films and the one of his brother)
* Sebastiano Gesù (ed.), ''Etica ed estetica dello sguardo. Il cinema dei fratelli Dardenne'', Catania, 2006.
* Feuillère, Anne. {{Cite web|url=http://cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&documentID=80275|title=Dardennes take on Le silence de Lorna.|accessdate= 2008-03-22}}2007. ''Cineuropa'', 10 October 2007.

== Further reading ==
* Luc Dardenne ''Au dos de nos images, 1991–2005'', éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2005 (a philosophical diary about the making of his films and the one of his brother)
* Luc Dardenne, ''Sur l'affaire humaine'', Le Seuil, 2012.
* Luc Dardenne, ''Au dos de nos images: Tome 2, 2005–2014'' (2015)
* Feuillère, Anne. {{Cite web |title=Dardennes take on Le silence de Lorna. | date=10 October 2007 |url=http://cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&documentID=80275}}2007. '']'', 10 October 2007.
* West, Joan M., West, Dennis. "Taking the Measure of Human Relationships: An Interview with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne." ''Cineaste'', Summer 2003, Vol. 28, Issue 3. * West, Joan M., West, Dennis. "Taking the Measure of Human Relationships: An Interview with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne." ''Cineaste'', Summer 2003, Vol. 28, Issue 3.
* Bickerton, Emilie. "The Art and Politics of the Dardenne Brothers." ''Cineaste'', Spring2006, Vol. 31, Issue 2. * Bickerton, Emilie. "The Art and Politics of the Dardenne Brothers." ''Cineaste'', Spring2006, Vol. 31, Issue 2.
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* Johnstone, Sheila. "The secret of the Dardenne brothers' Palme d'Or success." '']'', 17 March 2006. * Johnstone, Sheila. "The secret of the Dardenne brothers' Palme d'Or success." '']'', 17 March 2006.
* Hoberman, J. "Acts of faith." ''The Village Voice'', 8 January 2003, Vol. 48 * Hoberman, J. "Acts of faith." ''The Village Voice'', 8 January 2003, Vol. 48
* Scott, A.O. "A Father and the Boy Who Killed His Son." '']'', 28 September 2002, Vol. 152 Issue 52255 * Scott, A.O. "A Father and the Boy Who Killed His Son." '']'', 28 September 2002, Vol. 152 Issue 52255
* Klawans, Stuart. "The Wild Child." '']'', 10 April 2006, Vol. 282 Issue 14. * Klawans, Stuart. "The Wild Child." '']'', 10 April 2006, Vol. 282 Issue 14.
* Wolfreys, Jim. "Reality Bites." '']'', December 2008, Issue 331. * Wolfreys, Jim. "Reality Bites." '']'', December 2008, Issue 331.
* Mai, Joseph. "Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne". University of Illinois Press, 2010 {{ISBN|978-0-252-07711-1}}
* Crano, R.d., "," ''Film-Philosophy'' 13.1, April 2009.
* Dillet, B. and T. Puri, '', ''Film-Philosophy'', 17.1, 2013, pp.&nbsp;367–82.
* Olivier Ducharme, ''Films de combat. La résistance du cinéma des frères Dardenne'', Montréal, Varia, 2017.
* Mayward, Joel, "The Scapegoat: The Dardenne Brothers' The Son." ''Bright Wall/Dark Room'', Issue 81: "Sacrifice," 16 March 2020, .
* Mayward, Joel. ''The Dardenne Brothers' Cinematic Parables: Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and Film''. Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9781032302072


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* ''Chant du rossignol'' (1978)
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* ''Lorsque le bateau de Léon M. descendit la Meuse pour la première fois'' (1979)
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* ''Pour que la guerre s'achève, les murs devaient s'écrouter'' (1980)
* {{IMDb name|201095|Luc Dardenne}}
* ''R... ne répond plus'' (1981)
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* ''Leçons d'une université volante'' (1982)
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Belgian film directors, screenwriters and film producers

Jean-Pierre and Luc DardenneCMW
Luc (right) and Jean-Pierre Dardenne in 2015
BornJean-Pierre: (1951-04-21) 21 April 1951 (age 73)
Liège, Belgium
Luc: (1954-03-10) 10 March 1954 (age 70)
Liège, Belgium
Occupation(s)Film directors, producers, screenwriters
Years active1978–present
AwardsFull list

Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne CMW (French: [daʁdɛn]; born 21 April 1951) and Luc Dardenne CMW (born 10 March 1954), collectively referred to as the Dardenne brothers, are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce, and direct their films together. They also own the production company Les Films du Fleuve.

The Dardennes began making narrative and documentary films in the late 1970s. They came to international attention in the mid-1990s with La Promesse (The Promise). They won their first major international film prize when Rosetta won the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Their work tends to reflect left-wing themes and points-of-view.

In 2002, Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes for the Dardennes' Le Fils (The Son). In 2005, they won the Palme d'Or a second time for their film L'Enfant (The Child), putting them in an elite club, at the time, of only seven. Their film, Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna's Silence), won Best Screenplay at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was released in Europe in the fall. Their film The Kid with a Bike won the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, received one Golden Globe nomination and eight Magritte Award nominations. Jean-Pierre was the jury president for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, their film Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night) received nine Magritte Award nominations (winning three) and one Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Marion Cotillard. Their 2019 feature Young Ahmed won them the Best Director Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Their 2022 film Tori and Lokita won the 75th Anniversary Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Career

The Dardenne Brothers at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

Creators of intensely naturalistic films about working class life in Belgium, brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have created a notable body of work since 1996. With La Promesse (The Promise) (1996), Rosetta (1999), Le Fils (The Son) (2002), and L'Enfant (The Child) (2005), the Dardennes' films show young people at the fringes of society – immigrants, the unemployed, the inhabitants of shelters. Both Rosetta and L'Enfant were awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the only two Belgian films ever to earn the honor.

The Dardennes were born and raised in Seraing in Liege, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium. Jean-Pierre (born in 1951) studied drama while Luc (born three years later) studied philosophy. In 1975 they established Derives, the production company that produced the roughly sixty documentary films they made before branching into feature films. These films covered such topics as Polish immigration, World War II resistance, a general strike in 1960. Their first two feature films, however, are rarely seen today: Falsch (1987) adapted from René Kalisky, featuring Bruno Cremer and Je pense a vous (1992). The Dardennes had their first international success with La Promesse (The Promise) in 1996.

In 1994, they launched the production company Les Films du Fleuve, which produces all of their films and also films by other European directors such as Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard and Benoît Jacquot.

With Rosetta the Dardennes turned their focus to the burdens – philosophical, spiritual, psychological – of unemployment. Émilie Dequenne, who had not acted in film before, and was awarded the Best Actress Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is the title character, a young woman living with her alcoholic mother in a trailer park. The film is about Rosetta's search for purpose and to Rosetta purpose can only be found through work – she makes her way through Seraing's fringes for the most menial of positions; she catches fish in the muddy, murky stream by her trailer park. Rosetta was the first Belgian film ever to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, coming in ahead of films by David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Takeshi Kitano, and Raoul Ruiz. The film provided some impetus for a labor law designed to protect young workers like Rosetta shortly after the film's release. "'t was pure chance,' Jean-Pierre insists. 'There was already a bill going through, and the minister took advantage of our award to call it the Rosetta Law. But we never intended to get laws changed.' Luc adds: 'Of course, we always hope our films will speak to people, disturb them, but we never hoped to change the world'."

Crimes and occupations again figure prominently in the Dardennes' fourth film, L'Enfant (The Child). The film earned the Dardennes the Palme d'Or from Cannes, their second in seven years. L'Enfant won the André Cavens Award in 2005, making directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne fourth-time winners of the award.

The Dardenne brothers have a regular stable of collaborators (for all of their films the brothers share writing and directing credits), including cinematographer Alain Marcoen and editor Marie-Hélène Dozo. Jérémie Renier played Igor in La Promesse, Bruno in L'Enfant, Claudy in Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna's Silence), Guy in Le gamin au vélo (The Kid with a Bike), and Bryan's father in The Unknown Girl (La Fille inconnue). Olivier Gourmet, the main character of Le fils, has brief cameos as a detective in L'Enfant and as a bullying character in "La Fille Inconnue". Like Rosetta's Emilie Dequenne, Déborah François, the seventeen-year-old lead in L'Enfant, was appearing in her first film. Luc Dardenne has described their process of working with actors as follows: "What we do with the actors is also very physical. The day filming begins we do not feel obliged to do things exactly the way they were rehearsed; we pretend that we are starting over from zero so that we can rediscover things that we did before. The instructions we give the actors are above all physical. We start working without the cameraman—just the actors and my brother and me. We walk them through the blocking, first one then the other, trying several different versions. They say but do not act their lines. We do not tell them what the tone of their lines should be; we just say that we will see once the camera is rolling. At this point there is no cameraman, no sound engineer, no lighting. Then we set up all the camera movements exactly and the rhythm of the shot, which is usually a long take. Doing it this way allows us the ability to modify the actors' movements or any small details."

The Dardennes often employ handheld cameras and use available light. In 2009, they signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects."

In June 2012, the brothers were invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Their 2014 film Two Days, One Night was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film received nine nominations at the 5th Magritte Awards, winning three, including Best Film and Best Director. Marion Cotillard received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the film, the first Oscar nomination for a Dardenne brothers film.

In 2014, their body of work was awarded the special prize of the 40th Anniversary of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2016, they released The Unknown Girl (La Fille inconnue), starring Adèle Haenel as a young doctor who lets the door buzzer of her small clinic go unanswered one evening after work hours and then grows determined to discover the identity of the young woman found dead nearby when the police see from a security tape that she had been the person ringing at the door.

Their 2019 film Young Ahmed, a film about a Belgian teenager embracing Islamic extremism, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and they won the Best Director prize.

Their 2022 film Tori and Lokita, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and won the 75th Anniversary Prize.

Filmography

Features

Year Title Credited as Notes
Directors Screenwriters Producers
1987 Falsch Yes Yes
1992 Je pense à vous Yes Yes Yes
1995 Faute de soleil Yes Co-producers
1996 La Promesse Yes Yes
1999 Rosetta Yes Yes Yes
2001 The Milk of Human Kindness Yes Co-producers
2002 The Son Yes Yes Yes
2003 The Living World Yes Co-producers
2003 Stormy Weather Yes
2003 The Sun Assassinated Yes
2005 The Axe Yes Co-producers
2005 L'Enfant Yes Yes Yes
2006 The Colonel Yes
2007 Vous êtes de la police? Yes Co-producers
2008 Lorna's Silence Yes Yes Yes
2009 The Front Line Yes
2010 K.O.R. Yes
2011 The Kid with a Bike Yes Yes Yes
2011 The Minister Yes
2012 Rust and Bone Yes Co-producers
2012 Beyond the Hills Yes Co-producers
2013 Marina Yes Co-producers
2013 Je fais le mort Yes Co-producers
2014 Two Days, One Night Yes Yes Yes
2014 Wild Life Yes Co-producers
2015 Diary of a Chambermaid Yes Co-producers
2015 Cowboys Yes Co-producers
2015 Long Live the Bride Yes Co-producers
2016 Le Fils de Joseph Yes Co-producers
2016 Hedi Yes Co-producers
2016 Graduation Yes Co-producers
2016 Pericle Yes Co-producers
2016 The Unknown Girl Yes Yes Yes
2016 Les Carnivores Yes Co-producers
2019 Young Ahmed Yes Yes Yes
2022 Tori and Lokita Yes Yes Yes
2023 Jeanne du Barry Yes Co-producers
2023 The Old Oak Yes Co-producers

Documentaries

Year Title Credited as Notes
Directors Screenwriters Producers
1978 Le Chant du rossignol Yes
1980 Pour que la guerre s'achève, les murs devraient s'écrouler Yes Yes
1981 R... ne répond plus Yes Yes Also cinematographers and editors
1982 Leçons d'une université volante Yes Yes Also cinematographers
1983 Regarde Jonathan, Jean Louvet, son œuvre Yes Also editors and camera operators
1997 Gigi, Monica... et Bianca Yes Executive producers
2000 La Devinière Yes Line producer
2002 Brook by Brook Yes TV; co-producers
2002 Romances de terre et d'eau Yes
2005 Il fare politica Yes
2006 Rwanda, les collines parlent Yes
2007 Why We Can't See Each Other Outside When the Sun is Shining Yes
2009 Children Without a Shadow Yes Executive producers
2012 Un été avec Anton Yes TV
2013 À ciel ouvert Yes Co-producers

Shorts

Year Title Credited as Notes
Directors Screenwriters Producers
1979 Lorsque le bateau de Leon M. descendit la Meuse pour la première fois Yes Yes Documentary; also cinematographers
1987 Il court, il court, le monde Yes Yes
1999 L'Héritier Yes Executive producers
2002 First Love Yes
2007 Dans l'obscurité Yes Yes Segment of the anthology film To Each His Own Cinema
2008 Premier Jour Yes
2011 Bloody Eyes Yes

Honours, awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by the Dardenne brothers

Citations

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Sources

  • Sebastiano Gesù (ed.), Etica ed estetica dello sguardo. Il cinema dei fratelli Dardenne, Catania, 2006.

Further reading

  • Luc Dardenne Au dos de nos images, 1991–2005, éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2005 (a philosophical diary about the making of his films and the one of his brother)
  • Luc Dardenne, Sur l'affaire humaine, Le Seuil, 2012.
  • Luc Dardenne, Au dos de nos images: Tome 2, 2005–2014 (2015)
  • Feuillère, Anne. "Dardennes take on Le silence de Lorna". 10 October 2007.2007. Cineuropa, 10 October 2007.
  • West, Joan M., West, Dennis. "Taking the Measure of Human Relationships: An Interview with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne." Cineaste, Summer 2003, Vol. 28, Issue 3.
  • Bickerton, Emilie. "The Art and Politics of the Dardenne Brothers." Cineaste, Spring2006, Vol. 31, Issue 2.
  • Ansen, David. "An awakening." Newsweek, 30 June 1997, Vol. 129, Issue 26.
  • Kauffmann, Stanley. "In a Cruel City." The New Republic, 26 May 1997, Vol. 216, Issue 21.
  • Cunneen, Michael. "Films take on the big issues power and faith." National Catholic Reporter, 12/03/99, Vol. 36, Issue 6.
  • Smith, Gavin. "Promises Fulfilled." The Village Voice, 8 June 1999, Vol.
  • Johnstone, Sheila. "The secret of the Dardenne brothers' Palme d'Or success." The Independent, 17 March 2006.
  • Hoberman, J. "Acts of faith." The Village Voice, 8 January 2003, Vol. 48
  • Scott, A.O. "A Father and the Boy Who Killed His Son." The New York Times, 28 September 2002, Vol. 152 Issue 52255
  • Klawans, Stuart. "The Wild Child." The Nation, 10 April 2006, Vol. 282 Issue 14.
  • Wolfreys, Jim. "Reality Bites." Socialist Review, December 2008, Issue 331.
  • Mai, Joseph. "Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne". University of Illinois Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-252-07711-1
  • Crano, R.d., "Furtive Urbanism in the Films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne," Film-Philosophy 13.1, April 2009.
  • Dillet, B. and T. Puri, 'Left-over spaces: The cinema of the Dardenne brothers', Film-Philosophy, 17.1, 2013, pp. 367–82.
  • Olivier Ducharme, Films de combat. La résistance du cinéma des frères Dardenne, Montréal, Varia, 2017.
  • Mayward, Joel, "The Scapegoat: The Dardenne Brothers' The Son." Bright Wall/Dark Room, Issue 81: "Sacrifice," 16 March 2020, .
  • Mayward, Joel. The Dardenne Brothers' Cinematic Parables: Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and Film. Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9781032302072

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