22 Jan 1997 Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Belgium, Luxembourg, Tunisia, France 1996 90 min Igor, a teenager working for his exploitative father, Roger, is drawn into a moral crisis when an immigrant worker dies in an accident. Roger tries to cover up the death, but Igor promises the dying man he’ll care for his… Continue reading The Promise
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Le gamin au vélo
The Kid With A Bike 27 Mar 2013 Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Belgium 2011 87 min The Dardenne brothers (Lorna’s Silence, The Child) have created another piece of transcendent and gripping cinema from a grittily mundane story. Eleven-year old Cyril is a troubled boy: abandoned by his father, he searches obsessively for his bicycle,… Continue reading Le gamin au vélo