The cinema of the Dardenne brothers : responsible realism
Title:
The cinema of the Dardenne brothers : responsible realism
JLCTITLE245:
Philip Mosley.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Wallflower Press Book published by Columbia University Press, [2013]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:
9780231850216
Series:
Abstract:
The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liege-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 Palms at the Cannes film festival, for 'Rosetta' (1999) and 'The Child' (2005). It argues that the ethical dimension of the Dardennes' work complements rather than precludes their sustained expression of a fundamental political sensibility.
Local Note:
JSTOR
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index.
Includes filmography (pages 134-140).
Contents:
Acknowledgments; 1. Responsible Realists; 2. Cinematic Reference Points; 3. The Video Documentaries, 1974-83; 4. Foraying into Fiction, 1986-92; 5. Breakthrough: The Promise, 1996; 6. First Plame d""Or: Rosetta, 1999; 7. Pushing the Envelope: The Son, 2002; 8. Second Palme d'Or, The Child, 2005; 9. A Minor Shift: The Silence of Lorna, 2008; Afterword: The Kid with a Bike, 2011; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.
Language:
In English.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.