Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers Responsible Realism

Name: Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers Responsible Realism
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ISBN: 9780231163293

ISBN-10: 0231163290

ISBN-13: 9780231163293

Edition: 2013

Authors: Philip Mosley

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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…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Publication date: 3/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.92" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Responsible Realists



Cinematic Reference Points



The Video Documentaries, 1974-83



Foraying into Fiction, 1986-92


Falsch; They're Running… Everyone's Running; You're on My Mind



Breakthrough: The Promise, 1996



First Palme d'Or: Rosetta, 1999



Pushing the Envelope: The Son, 2002



Second Palme d'Or: The Child, 2005



A Minor Shift: The Silence of Lorna, 2008


Afterword: The Kid with a Bike, 2011


Filmography


Bibliography


Index