Tag: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Director pays bittersweet homage to late actress

Luc Dardenne would have liked to work with Emilie Dequenne again

The tale of actress Emilie Dequenne is the stuff of legend. At age 17, she appeared in her first film and then found herself crowned at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was Rosetta – a harrowing tale of growing up in poverty in a post-industrial region of Belgium. The film was a turning point in the career of Duquenne, the Dardenne brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre that directed it and even on Belgium’s place in world cinema.

“It’s really unfair to die so young”

Dequenne sadly passed away recently at the age of 43. For director Luc Dardenne, the pain is double. “It’s really unfair to die so young,” he told the daily Libre Belgique. “We all know what Emilie did for cinema, but we’ll never know what she could still have done.”

Unlike other actors that the Dardenne brothers worked with, Dequenne never appeared in another of their films. Dardenne regrets this. “She told us, ‘You’ll never work with me again as I’m still Rosetta for you’. She was right.”

Although they had thought of her occasionally, they felt she needed a strong lead role. “But now that will never happen because of this damn disease.”

(Michael Leahy. Source: La Libre Belgique. Photo: Nicolas Landemard / Picture Alliance )

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MAMI Day 4: A mixed bag with Unknown Girl, Maroon, Multiple Maniacs and The Wailing | catchnews

The plot is simple, once , I walked out the doors, walked out the mall, ran five minutes down the street, got my bag checked once again, sat in for my second Indian movie of the festival, Maroon, and didn’t stand up for the national anthem again. It’s about a doctor haunted by the death (which she could have prevented) of an unidentified immigrant. This is the Dardenne brothers‘ tenth feature and stars a lead character who is able to show us her two sides without delving too deep into the character. It’s a misstep, but one that will still excite avid Dardenne brothers’ fans.

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The Dardenne Brothers’ ‘The Unknown Girl’: Cannes Review | Hollywood Reporter

Early in The Unknown Girl, the tenth feature from masters of European realism Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the young medic played with affecting sobriety and deeply internalized focus by Adele Haenel chides her rattled intern, telling him, “A good doctor has to control his emotions.” While Haenel’s character, Jenny Davin, never forgets that rule, this quiet drama is powered by the ways in which her professionalism expands to accommodate personal investment, accountability and atonement after an unwitting action — or rather, inaction — on her part leads to tragic consequences.

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