The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers : : Responsible Realism / / Philip Mosley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Mosley, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Directors' Cuts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›20.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Responsible Realists -- 2. Cinematic Reference Points -- 3. The Video Documentaries, 1974-83 -- 4. Foraying into Fiction, 1986-92 -- 5. Breakthrough: The Promise, 1996 -- 6. First Palme d'Or: Rosetta, 1999 -- 7. Pushing the Envelope: The Son, 2002 -- 8. Second Palme d'Or: The Child, 2005 -- 9. A Minor Shift: The Silence of Lorna, 2008 -- Afterword: The Kid with a Bike, 2011 -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index