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Dardenne brothers
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| Born
| Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
(
1951-04-21
)
21 April 1951
(age 73)
(Jean-Pierre)
(
1954-03-10
)
10 March 1954
(age 70)
(Luc)
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Brothers
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
(born 21 April 1951 in
Liege, Belgium
) and
Luc Dardenne
(born 10 March 1954 in
Liege, Belgium
) are a
Belgian
movie making duo. They
write
,
produce
and
direct
their movies together.
The Dardennes began making narrative and documentary movies in the late 1970s. They first came to international attention in the mid-1990s with
La Promesse
(
The Promise
). They won their first major international movie prize when
Rosetta
won the
Palme d'Or
at the 1999
Cannes Film Festival
. All their movies since have played at the Cannes main competition and won one of the major prizes. They have won more awards than any other movie makers in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.
[1]
In 2005, they won the Palme d'Or a second time for their movie
L’Enfant
(
The Child
). This put them in an elite group of only 7 with the likes of
Francis Ford Coppola
.
Jean-Pierre is the jury president for the Cinefoundation and Short Films sections of the
2012 Cannes Film Festival
.
[2]
- Chant du rossignol
(1978)
- Lorsque le bateau de Leon M. descendit la Meuse pour la premiere fois
(1979)
- Pour que la guerre s'acheve, les murs devaient s'ecrouter
(1980)
- R... ne repond plus
(1981)
- Lecons d'une universite volante
(1982)
- Regarde Jonathan/Jean Louvet, son oeuvre
(1983)
- Il court... il court le monde
(1987)
- Falsch
(1987)
- Je pense a vous
(
I Think of You
) (1992)
- La promesse
(
The Promise
) (1996)
- Rosetta
(1999) won the
Palme d'Or
at the
1999 Cannes Film Festival
- Le fils
(
The Son
) (2002)
- L’Enfant
(
The Child
) (2005) won the
Palme d'Or
at the
2005 Cannes Film Festival
- Dans l'Obscurite
(
Darkness
) (2007)
- Le silence de Lorna
(
Lorna's Silence
) (2008)
- The Kid with a Bike
(
Le Gamin au velo
) (2011)
