Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

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The Dardenne brothers at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival

The brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne (born April 21, 1951 in Engis ) and Luc Dardenne (born March 10, 1954 in Awirs ) are Belgian film directors , film producers and screenwriters . They make most of their films together.

Life

The two brothers grew up in a municipality in the province of Liège in industrial Seraing , which, like the Ruhr area , has experienced extreme decline.

After studying dramaturgy at the Art Academy in Brussels , Jean-Pierre shot a few videos about life in Walloon working-class cities with his brother Luc, who studied philosophy at the University of Liège . After meeting the Monegasque filmmaker Armand Gatti and the cameraman Ned Burgess, with whom they realized a number of projects, they made the decision to enter the film business.

With film art and social philosophy, the Dardenne brothers unite the two elements that became the basis of their cinematic work.

In 1978, Le chant du rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) was made, her first documentary film , which reports on the resistance of the Belgian Resistance against the National Socialists during the Second World War . The first feature film , Falsch , which tells the story of a Jewish family murdered by the Nazis, was made in 1986. Her second film, Je pense a vous (I think of you) from 1992, was followed by Das Promise 1996, an extremely complex work that, alongside the Immigration problem is about growing up and the biographical and ethical history of emancipation of a son from his racist father. The promise became an international success and won prizes at numerous festivals. One of the film's discoveries was Jérémie Renier , with whom the brothers have since worked on other films.

For Rosetta , a feature film that tells of a young person ( Émilie Dequenne ) and her alcoholic mother who strives for a better life in a small Belgian town, they were awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival . They were also successful three years later in Cannes with their next joint feature film The Son , which in turn deals extensively with father-son relationships and the difficulty of forgiveness. In addition to being nominated for the Palme d'Or, they received the special prize of the jury. Since the 2005 Festival, they have belonged to the small group of filmmakers who have received several Golden Palms. They received their second palm for Das Kind , a film about a young couple who live on donations and petty thefts until the father discovers a new source of income in their newborn child.

In 2008 the Dardenne brothers received another invitation to compete at the 61st Cannes Film Festival for Lorna's silence . In the drama, the relatively unknown actress Arta Dobroshi can be seen in the title role of a young Albanian woman who dreams of having her own snack bar with her boyfriend and drifts into crime. Although the film was subject to the French contribution The Class by Laurent Cantet , the work as a director won the screenplay award.

In 2011 the brothers completed the film The Boy with a Bicycle , which won them their fifth invitation to the competition at the Cannes Film Festival . The focus is on a twelve-year-old boy who leaves the children's home to look for his father and is supported by a hairdresser (played by Cécile de France ). With this film, the Dardenne brothers won the Grand Jury Prize and their script was awarded the European Film Prize.

In 2012, Jean-Pierre Dardenne took over the direction of the short film and Cinéfondation jury at the 65th Cannes Film Festival .

In 2016, for La fille inconnue , they received their seventh invitation to compete at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival .

reception

The work of the Dardenne brothers is exemplary for the work of the female directors at the Berlin School , insofar as they attempt to portray society (sociology) .

Works

Filmography (selection)

Documentaries

  • 1978: Le chant du rossignol
  • 1979: Lorsque le bateau de Léon M. descendit la Meuse pour la première fois
  • 1980: Pour que la guerre s'achève, les murs devaient s'écrouter
  • 1981: R… ne répond plus
  • 1982: Leçons d'une université volante
  • 1983: Regard Jonathan / Jean Louvet, son œuvre

fiction

Awards (selection)

  • 1997: Joseph Plateau Prize for The Promise (Best Director)
  • 1997: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for The Promise (Best Foreign Film)
  • 1999: Golden Palm of the International Film Festival of Cannes for Rosetta ( Emilie Dequenne , the lead actress, was also excellent)
  • 2000: Joseph Plateau Prize for Rosetta (Best Director)
  • 2003: Prix ​​Lumières for The Son (Best French-Language Film)
  • 2003: Joseph Plateau Prize for Der Sohn (Best Director)
  • 2005: Bremen Film Prize
  • 2005: The Golden Palm of the Cannes International Film Festival for The Child
  • 2006: Prix Lumières for The Child (Best French-Language Film)
  • 2006: Joseph Plateau Prize for Das Kind (Best Director, Best Screenplay)
  • 2006: Guldbagge for Das Kind (Best Foreign Film)
  • 2008: Screenplay Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for Lorna's Silence
  • 2008: EU Lux-Film Award for Lorna's silence
  • 2008: Cologne Film Prize as part of the Cologne Conference
  • 2009: Prix Lumières for Lornas Schweigen (Best French- Language Film)
  • 2011 : European Film Award for Best Screenplay for The Boy with a Bicycle
  • 2011: Grand Jury Prize of the Cannes International Film Festival for The Boy with a Bicycle
  • 2015: Guldbagge for two days, one night (best foreign film)
  • 2015: Magritte for two days, one night (best film, best director)
  • 2015: Prix Lumières for Two Days, One Night (Best Foreign French-Language Film)

literature

  • Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Au dos de nos images, 1991–2005, suivi du scénario du Fils et de L'Enfant, de Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne. Editions du Seuil, La Librairie du XXe siècle , 2005.
  • Joseph Mai: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. University of Illinois Press, 2010.
  • Mariella Schütz: Exploration Cinema: The Dardenne Brothers' films. Schüren, Marburg 2011.
  • Gregory Mohr: Post-Social Realism: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Nomos, 2012.
  • Urs Urban: Rosetta and Yella. About the impossibility of narrative rehabilitation of economic people. In: Trajectoires , No. 3/2009, December 17, 2009.
  • Johannes Wende (eds.): Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. (= Film concepts 31), edition text + kritik, Munich 2013.
  • Georg Seeßlen: About the return of the social in the cinema - and what the Dardenne brothers' films have to do with it. In: Die Zeit No. 45/2014, October 30, 2014.
  • Ludwig Nagl, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (ed.): A film philosophy symposium with Robert B. Pippin. Western, film noir and the Dardenne brothers' cinema. In: Wiener Reihe. Topics of Philosophy, Volume 19. De Gruyter, Berlin 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Summary at indiewire.com, May 22, 2011 (accessed May 22, 2011)
  2. ↑ Mariella Schütz: Explorationskino - The films of the Dardenne brothers, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89472-727-7
  3. ↑ Urs Urban: Rosetta and Yella. About the impossibility of narrative rehabilitation of economic people. In: Trajectoires, No. 3/2009, December 17, 2009