the Dardennes bros' "L'Enfant"

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I expected Bruno to sell the kid a second time.

Morbius, refresh my memory; what were the last two scenes?

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Bruno showing up at jail and giving himself up, then sobbing in the visit room w/ gf.

No thread for The Kid with the Bike?

Not bad. For once their naturalism didn't seem like cruel tricks on the characters.

yeah, i liked.

SPOILLEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

i didn't so much like the father & sun displaying a satisfying lack of compassion at the end, like we needed more of a reason to root for the kid. i loved it more as a parable that we can't be separated from shit we've done than a demonstration that everyone's an asshole.

A lot of us in a similar situation might protect their kid in the same way that the father did -- a sharp contrast b/w Cyril and his old man.

LOL, two threads on the one film, no threads on the filmmakers.

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "L'Enfant"

Start one!

I'll see Bike with as open a mind as I can muster. L'enfant remains my least favorite of the Dardennes movies I've seen. The Son is pretty great.

saw Bike yesterday. it's.. very Dardenne brothers. I liked it and it did remind me of The Son. there is something I really like about their style, the way the camera moves and how there are all these small cars and bikes moving around and out of the frame. and you can still hear the cars and other noises even when they're not shown, like a swarm of bees kind of. like the end of Rosetta with the guy following her on the motorbike.

I want more movies that are less about "performances" and more about action plz

i love how curious i was to see this, hearing that it was their 'light' movie, & how i spent the first hundred minutes brutally crushed, the way you are w/all their films, at how terrible everything seeemed. light being a relative term.