THE CINEMA OF THE DARDENNE BROTHERS

The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema . Inspired by their home turf of L'ège-Seraign, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a ser ies of fiction films that blends acute observation of life on the social margins with moral fables for the postmodern age. This volu me analyses the brothers' career from their leftist video documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s through their debut as directors of f iction f...[Read more]