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The Son

Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Il court… il court le monde

Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne in Person
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  • The Son (Le fils)

    Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
    With Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart.
    Belgium/France, 2002, 35mm, color, 103 min.
    French with English subtitles.

In a departure from the earlier features’ intense focus on a single protagonist, The Son intertwines the stories of two men of different generations: a middle-aged carpenter and his young apprentice whose relationship returns the Dardennes to the father-son dynamic of La promesse, but with the crucial difference that these two men are bonded not by family, but by the blood of a past crime. A meditation on the relation between ethics and time, The Son intensely observes two people whose exact relationship only becomes clear over time and is more overdetermined that it seems at first glance.

  • Il court… il court le monde

    Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
    With Jean-Paul Dermont, John Dobrynine, François Duisinx.
    Belgium, 1987, 35mm, color, 10 min.
    French with English subtitles.

The Dardennes’ first fictional effort was this short, dark satire about the modern obsession with speed. Set in the world of local television news, Il court… manages to link the Futurists’ celebration of technology with two of the Dardennes’ signature concerns: the sharing and dispersal of information in the contemporary world addressed in their early work, and the human experience of time and duration explored in their recent features.

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