MORE THAN A FEW filmmakers have plotted a career path or artistic journey from documentary to fictional cinema. For some, it’s a fairly straight path. Krzysztof Kieślowski shot a doc on the Polish court system, where he met a lawyer who became his screenwriter and the rest was less history than art. Other journeys are […]
Samantha (Cécile De France) is a hairdresser; she works with her hands, and she knows the art of gentleness. Hairdressers also tend to become listeners… even counselors and confessors. All of these skills will come into play as she finds herself seized by a broken-hearted boy. The central character of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s film […]
Cineaste: Why are there so many silences and so little dialog in your films? Jean-Pierre Dardenne: In fact, The Son is a film about the difficulty of speaking…. We are more interested in trying to give meaning to a scene by the way we film the relations between the characters’ bodies and what gestures a […]
That’s it. I’m moving to Manhattan. This afternoon. Friday at the latest. “Beyond L’Enfant: The Complete Dardenne Brothers” launches today at Lincoln Centre, and while the Dardenne-a-thon may be less complete than advertised, I’d give my last Belgian waffle to be there Friday when Jean-Pierre and Luc take the stage. Also, Bahrani vs The Brothers.