Tag: Luc Dardenne
2025 Cannes: New Palme d’Or Comp Faces in Ari Aster, Hafsia, Hayakawa, Hermanus, Laxe, Carla Simón & Mascha Schilinski!
Gone are the days of the old boys club (although the Dardenne Bros will be attempting to win the record-breaking third Palme), and there...
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
The Juliette Binoche-led main competition jury could have their work cut out for them, as this might be one of those years where Thierry...
2024 Eurimages: Visar Morina, Hlynur Pálmason, Nadav Lapid, Valentyn Vasyanovych & Dardennes Receive Support
The results of the second Eurimages Project Evaluation Session for 2024 have just been announced and we are finding some major projects in the...
Autumn in Belgium: Dardenne Bros. & Laura Wandel Currently Prepping Next Projects
If the shooting schedule remains intact, we can circle a 2025 Cannes Film Festival playdate for the next Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne film project...
Saturn Bowling | Review
Nightmare (Bowling) Alley: Mazuy Shocks with Disturbing Thriller
Every once in a while, a film comes along which conceptualizes brutality so shocking and vile it...
Tori et Lokita | Review
Suffer the Children: The Dardenne Bros. Trend of Neorealism Continues in Dismal Portrait of Migrant Children
The Dardenne Bros. have built a significant filmography showcasing...
2022 European Film Awards: Alcarràs, Close, Triangle of Sadness, Corsage & Holy Spider on 30 Short List
It's that time of year again where Euro titles from Venice of the previous year duke it out with Euro Cannes film productions of...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Competition
Armageddon Time - James Gray
Boy from Heaven - Tarik Saleh
Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Frère et sœur - Arnaud Desplechin
Close - Lukas...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s Tori et Lokita
For their ninth feature film in competition, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne once again turn to non-actors to give their text fresh new faces for...
2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or
The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
La ligne | Review
Fists Out of Pocket: Meier Mines Superficial Dysfunction with Uneven Comic Melodrama
Although she’s been working on a variety of documentary and short projects, not...
Through the Looking Glass: Top 20 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022 – Picks 20-11
As we continue to navigate a world still in the grip of a formidable pandemic, many have hypothesized on the fate of theatrical releases...
Young Ahmed | Review
Stabbing Backwards: Dardennes “Beet” Misguided Youth into Submission
Up until now, even the most disenfranchised personage in Dardennian cinema had at least a glimmer of...
2019 Cannes Critics Panel: Day 8 – Dardenne Bros.’ Young Ahmed
Palme d’Or winners for 1999's Rosetta (review) and L’Enfant (2005), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have attempted to three-peat this past decade with 2011's The Kid...
2019 Cannes Film Festival: Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner & Céline Sciamma In Competition
Expect the unexpected. A mix of new faces and veteran filmmakers will make up the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival with first works...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #12. Ahmed – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Ahmed
The Dardenne Bros. turn their socially minded lens to religious extremism with their eleventh narrative feature, Ahmed. As usual, the Dardennes are collaborating with...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #68. Dernier amour – Benoît Jacquot
Dernier amour
French director Benoît Jacquot returns to period filmmaking with his 25th feature, Dernier amour (Casanova). Reuniting with Vincent Lindon, who also starred in Jacquot’s...
Criterion Collection: Beyond the Hills | Blu-ray Review
For his third film, and his follow-up to his 2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu, titan of...
Tuesday Blus: Arturo Ripstein’s Time to Die, John Trengove’s The Wound, Etc.
This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles:
The Wound (2017) – Kino Lorber / Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) – Kino Lorber...
Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Aquarius, Elle & Paterson Top our 2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Yesterday's George Miller led jury pronounced Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake as the best from the 2016 competition of twenty-one films, and they gave...
The Unknown Girl | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Guilt Trip: The Dardennes’ Add a Touch of Genre to Collective Guilt
For better or worse, we already know what kind of quiet poignancy...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Dardennes Get Clean Bill of Health for “The Unknown Girl”
Padding their already impressive filmography as filmmakers, the Dardennes are becoming a force in auteur-driven films as producers. Landing a little everywhere in Cannes...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #1. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s La Fille inconnue
La Fille inconnue
Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Writers: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
The two-time Palme d'Or winning Belgian duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Rosetta; L'Enfant) take...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #28. Rebecca Zlotowski’s Planetarium
Planetarium
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Writers: Rebecca Zlotowski, Robin Campillo
We're expecting French director Rebecca Zlotowski's third feature, Planetarium to enhance the burgeoning auteur's status on international radar....
Criterion Collection: Two Days, One Night | Blu-ray Review:
Premiering at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it went home empty handed from the Jane Campion headed jury, Belgian directing duo Jean-Pierre and...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
Love At First Sight: The Dardennes ID Adèle Haenel as “La fille inconnue”
Potentially adding to their list of strong, infatigable and memorable film heroines in the line of Rosetta (Émilie Dequenne), Lorna (Arta Dobroshi), Samantha (Cécile...
Best of 2014: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 (Picks 20-11)
As seems to be the usual case, many of my top 2014 theatrical releases were actually 2013 titles I caught on the festival circuit...
European Film Awards: Vogt, Östlund, Pawlikowski, Zvyagintsev , Glazer & Ceylan Among 50 Contenders
This year’s European Film Awards are officially out of the gates with a not so lean 50 film submissions to select from. The 27th...
2014 NYFF: Chazelle, Broomfield, Bonello, Ferrara, Sang-soo, Hansen-Løve Make Cut
While Sundance (Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip) and Berlin (Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Yann Demange's ’71, Alain Resnais' Life...
2014 TIFF: McCarthy, Bettany, Girard, Fontaine, Barthes Among Several World Preem Add-Ons
Just how much sway do TIFF programmers have? Looking at today's Gala and Special Presentation add-ons, measurably, when it comes to films with star-wattage and...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Andrew Droz Palermo’s Top Ten Films of All Time
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
2014 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Dardennes Receive a Bonus with “Two Days, One Night” & “Still the Water” Floats
Cannes May 20th - Day 6.
Past the midway point, this morning's 8:30 a.m. screening proved that The Dardennes might be the first to three-peat....
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #15. Dardenne Bros.’ Deux jours, une nuit
Deux jours, une nuit (Two days, One night)
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Writers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Producers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
U.S. Distributor: Sundance Selects
Cast: Marion...
Criterion Collection: The Kid with a Bike | Blu-ray Review
There’s an extraordinary moment in Rosetta, the Dardenne Brothers’ Palme d’Or winning slice of grungy life from 1999. About 22 minutes in, Emilie Dequenne’s...
Criterion Collection: La Promesse | Blu-ray Review
La Promesse, newly released on Blu-ray by Criterion, introduced the world to the filmmaking team of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and their patented brand...
Criterion Collection: Rosetta | Blu-ray Review
While there have been many coming of age films about teenage girls, it’s safe to say none have been quite like Rosetta, Luc and...
The Kid With a Bike | Review
The Dardenne brothers’ neo-realist fable captivates
The latest movie from Belgian co-directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is a unique combination of ethnographic observation and allegorical...
