A film by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne with Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard...
1h35 - Fiction - 2005
French with English subtitles
Palme d’Or 2005 au Festival de Cannes

 Synopsis

Dans une ville industrielle belge, Seraing, Bruno , 20 ans (Jérémie Reignier), et Sonia (Déborah François), 18 ans, vivent de l’allocation perçue par la jeune fille et des larcins commis par le garçon et sa bande. Sonia vient de donner naissance à Jimmy, leur enfant. L’insouciant Bruno doit alors apprendre à devenir père, lui qui jusqu’alors ne se préoccupait que de l’instant présent.

Set in dreary east Belgium industrial town of Seraing, disowned twenty-year old Bruno (Jérémie Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia (Déborah François) off government checks, panhandling, and petty theft from Bruno’s gang of 14-year old thieves. Sonia has just given birth to their firstborn son (Jimmy). Bruno hasn’t even seen his son yet, and he’s certainly not ready to be a father.



 Critique

Les frères Dardenne se confirment comme étant des humanistes, qui décèlent des pépites d’humanité au cœur de ces vies délabrées.

“This film probably dates from a day during the shooting of our previous film (THE SON). We were in Seraing, Belgium on Rue du Molinay. In the morning, afternoon and evening, we saw a girl pushing a pram along, with a newborn baby asleep inside it. She didn’t seem to be going anywhere in particular – just around and around with the pram. We have often thought back to this girl, her pram, the sleeping child, and the missing character : the child’s father. This absent figure would become our story... A love story that is also the story of a father.” Jean-Pierre and Luc DARDENNE



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