The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liège-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blends acute observation of life on the social margins with moral fables for the postmodern age. This volume analyses the brothers' career from their leftist video documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s through their debut as directors of fiction films in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their six major achievements from The Promise (1996) to The Kid with a Bike (2011), an oeuvre that includes two Golden Palms at the Cannes film festival, for Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005). It argues that the ethical dimension of the Dardennes' work complements rather than precludes their sustained expression of a fundamental political sensibility.
| ISBN: | 9780231163286 |
| Publication date: | 23rd April 2013 |
| Author: | Philip Mosley |
| Publisher: | Wallflower Press an imprint of Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Directors' Cuts |
| Genres: |
Individual film directors, film-makers |
The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liège-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blends acute observation of life on the social margins with moral fables for the postmodern age. This volume analyses the brothers' career from their leftist video documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s through their debut as directors of fiction films in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their six major achievements from The Promise (1996) to The Kid with a Bike (2011), an oeuvre that includes two Golden Palms at the Cannes film festival, for Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005). It argues that the ethical dimension of the Dardennes' work complements rather than precludes their sustained expression of a fundamental political sensibility.
The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers features in the following genres: Individual film directors, film-makers
The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers is available in Hardback, Paperback
The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers was written by Philip Mosley and published by Wallflower Press an imprint of Columbia University Press
The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers has 256 pages
Yes it is part of Directors' Cuts series