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2009’s Top 10 Repeat Offenders in the Dardenne Bros. and Jeremie Renier

Since 1996’s La promesse, Jérémie Renier has become a whipping boy of sorts for the Dardenne brothers. With a stint in 2005’s L’enfant (2005) where Renier appeared as a vagabond in need of a parenting course, the actor saw conditions get worse with Lorna’s Silence (the pic received its world preem at Cannes in 2008, and eventually received a 2009 theatrical release). Here, he plays a supporting character – the victim of addiction and an arranged marriage that didn’t help out his overall cause.
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#6. LORNA’s SILENCE

Since 1996’s La promesse, Jérémie Renier has become a whipping boy of sorts for the Dardenne brothers. With a stint in 2005’s L’enfant (2005) where Renier appeared as a vagabond in need of a parenting course, the actor saw conditions get worse with Lorna’s Silence (the pic received its world preem at Cannes in 2008, and eventually received a 2009 theatrical release). Here, he plays a supporting character – the victim of addiction and an arranged marriage that didn’t help out his overall cause.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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