Luc Dardenne

Brothers JeanPierre Dardenne born 21 April 1951 and Luc Dardenne born 10 March 1954 collectively referred to as the Dardenne brothers are a Belgian filmmaking duo They write produce and direct their films together The Dardennes began making narrative and documentary films in the late 1970s They came to international attention in the mid1990s with La Promesse The Promise They won their first major international film prize when Rosetta won the Palme dOr at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival Their work tends to reflect leftwing themes and pointsofview In 2002 Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes for the Dardennes Le Fils The Son In 2005 they won the Palme dOr a second time for their film LEnfant The Child putting them in an elite club at the time of only seven Their film Le Silence de Lorna Lornas Silence won Best Screenplay at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was released in Europe in the fall Their film The Kid with a Bike won the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival received one Golden Globe nomination and eight Magritte Award nominations JeanPierre was the jury president for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival In 2015 their film Deux jours une nuit Two Days One Night received nine Magritte Award nominations winning three and one Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Marion Cotillard Their 2019 feature Young Ahmed won them the Best Director Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Their 2022 film Tori and Lokita won the 75th Anniversary Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Creators of intensely naturalistic films about working class life in Belgium brothers Luc and JeanPierre Dardenne have created a notable body of work since 1996 With La Promesse The Promise 1996 Rosetta 1999 Le Fils The Son 2002 and LEnfant The Child 2005 the Dardennes films show young people at the fringes of society immigrants the unemployed the inhabitants of shelters Both Rosetta and LEnfant were awarded the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival the only two Belgian films ever to earn the honor The Dardennes were born and raised in Seraing in Liege in Wallonia the Frenchspeaking region of Belgium JeanPierre born in 1951 studied drama while Luc born three years later studied philosophy In 1975 they established Derives the production company that produced the roughly sixty documentary films they made before branching into feature films These films covered such topics as Polish immigration World War II resistance a general strike in 1960 Their first two feature films however are rarely seen today Falsch 1987 adapted from René Kalisky featuring Bruno Cremer and Je pense a vous 1992 The Dardennes had their first international success with La Promesse The Promise in 1996 Source Article Dardenne brothers from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30