Jean-Pierre Dardenne
IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201094/
Date of Birth:21 April 1951, Engis, Wallonia, Belgium
Trademarks:Often works with Fabrizio Rongione, Jérémie Renier and Olivier Gourmet. Hand-held camera. Characters often use bikes or bicycles. Stories revolving around poor characters who are struggling to make money. Father/son relationships. Doesn't use score. Strong sense of morality; focuses on themes such as consciousness raising, forgiveness and redemption Movies often end with a character lending a hand to another Leading characters are in basically every frame of the movie Films are set in Seraing, Liege, the town where he was born and raised.
Endangered Species Espèces menacées
French Film Festival Release Date
Thursday 16th November 2017
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The intertwined lives of three families shaken by love and violence.
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UK Cinema Release Date
Sunday 25th February 2018
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Two people meet again after more than 50 years. They were lovers once, but their lives took different turns: she married his best friend. Fifty years later, they meet again and passion flares up. But is it possible to pick up the thread of a life that unraveled fifty years ago? The story of a wonderful last love affair, which is relived with the intensity of a first.
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BFI London Film Festival Release Date
Tuesday 16th October 2018
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A Tunisian middle class couple with high hopes for the future of their only son discover he's left to join ISIS in Syria.
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Glasgow Film Festival Release Date
Monday 25th February 2019
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Dour ex-boyfriend Antoine returns to his Belgian hometown where he reunites with his ex-lover and the mother of their five-year-old girl, Elsa, whom he has never met. Through an unexpected turn of events, Antoine suddenly finds himself left alone to take care of the young, inquisitive and spirited youngster.
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French Film Festival Release Date
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A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.