Luc Dardenne
Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne (born 21 April 1951) and Luc Dardenne (born 10 March 1954), collectively referred to as the Dardenne brothers, are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce, and direct their films together. 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. 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. ... Source: Article "Dardenne brothers" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
Production
Les yeux verts
Butterfly Jam
Julian
Adam's Sake
Traffic
Bella
Bella
Young Mothers
Manas
The Most Precious of Cargoes
Julie Keeps Quiet
Foreign Language
Emilia Pérez
Holly
Black Box
Jeanne du Barry
The Line
Saturn Bowling
Tori and Lokita
Animals
My Night
Red Soil
La Civil
Atarrabi and Mikelats
Honey Cigar
Young Ahmed
Casanova, Last Love
Dear Son
Fatwa
How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
Don't Shoot
The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers
Paul Sanchez Is Back!
Carnivores
The Elephant and the Butterfly
Endangered Species
Planetarium
The Unknown Girl
The Dancer
Graduation
Pericle
The Son of Joseph
Good Luck Sam
Hedi
Behind the Clouds
Les Cowboys
Long Live the Bride
Diary of a Chambermaid
40-Love
Wild Life
Two Days, One Night
À ciel ouvert
Playing Dead
Marina
Ion
Beyond the Hills
Rust and Bone
Summer with Anton
The Minister
The Kid with a Bike
K.O.R.
The Front Line
Children Without a Shadow
Lorna's Silence
Premier Jour
Vous êtes de la police ?
Why We Can't See Each Other Outside When the Sun is Shining
Madonnas
The Colonel
Rwanda, les collines parlent
The Child
Il fare politica
Life, Differently
The Ax
Être amoureux
The Sun Assassinated
The Living World
Stormy Weather
The Son
Romances de terre et d'eau
Brook by Brook
First Love
Two Sisters
The Milk of Human Kindness
La devinière
Les siestes Grenadine
Rosetta
L'héritier
Do You Remember Revolution?
Gigi, Monica... et Bianca
Gigi, Monica... et Bianca
La Promesse
Faute de soleil
Thinking of You
The Writing on the Wall
